On Wednesday 19 March 2003 21:53, Leo Simons wrote: > Peter Donald wrote: > > So if it was created in 2000 and edited in all years since it would be > > 2000-2003, if it was edited in 2000 and again this year it would be > > 2000,2003 or various other combinations (ie 2000-2001,2003). > > We talked about this on the PMC list recently (or was it here?). The > resolution was that it is not terribly important from a legal POV to > update this copyright information very exactly. If something is marked > as copyrighted in 2000, it will remain copyrighted for the next 50 years > or so (forgot the exact number); not renewing the copyright claim simply > means that after that time the copyright becomes non-enforcable.
Maybe I'm too frivolous on this, and missing something truely important. What happens in 2050, when Apache looses the Copyright?? It becomes FREE, freer than ASL !! ?? Today I CAN take the code and do something else with it, without consulting Apache, I can spawn it, make it commercial, practically anything except leveraging on the Apache name. What more can I do IF ASF didn't have copyright on a particular file? Niclas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
