On 9/27/06, Bojan Smojver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 12:56 -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> or, to the project;
>
> do we want to change the very nature of collecting individual copyright
> statements in NOTICE from all major contributors? Do we believe this
> would encourage other worthwhile contributions?
After reading the 1.b of http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html,
it would seem that Sun can ask for this. So, if they asked and it's
important to them, I think we should do it, because our own rules seem
to indicate that it's OK. Personally, I don't understand why it's so
important to Sun to keep copyright on a 1000 line diff, but that's
beside the point.
Just for the record, nobody is saying that Sun shouldn't "keep
copyright" on the code. None of our CLAs involve a copyright
assignment, so no matter what happens Sun (just like any contributor)
will keep the copyright on whatever code they write.
The question is if they should be explicitly acknowledged in NOTICE,
despite the fact that we traditionally don't do that for code
contributed under a CLA and developed on our mailing lists.
-garrett
