Martin Cooper wrote:
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Antoine Lévy-Lambert wrote:
Leo Simons wrote:
Adam Jack has prepared a *python* script to update source code withI did a licensing audit. There's some things needing doing:
* The Java sources should be updated with the new ASL 2.0 header; * the new ASL 2.0 license should be added to gump cvs along with a NOTICE file; * many of the python sourcefiles should get the new ASL 2.0 license header in place of no header existing at all, some need the 1.1 license replaced with the 2.0 license; * the other (shell) script files probably need the header added as well; * I'm not sure whether the xsl and xml files need the header.
license headers and I have been working on it this evening
because I have volunteered to do the job for ant. The file is in the
committers cvs repository (did not know this one before) under the
relicense directory.
Unless it's been fixed since he first mentioned it, the problem with this script is that it does not retain the original copyright years, but overwrites them. IANAL, but many, many years of experience have taught me that retaining the original years is very important. So I'd recommend against using the script unless / until it can handle this.
(Yes, I know committers@ isn't supposed to be used for this kind of thing, but the message to which I'm replying went there, and I want to make sure the same people are aware of the issue. Sorry.)
-- Martin Cooper
Hi Martin,
I have changed the script relicense/relicense.py so that the *first* original copyright year is retained.
The last year will always be 2004 (or 2005 if someone runs the script next year, ...)
example original : Copyright (c) 1999 2001-2002 The Apache Software Foundation
output : Copyright 1999-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
As you mentioned in your previous email, this script handles currently only java files.
Cheers,
Antoine
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