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??
Apache looses copyright of the stuff that hasn't been touched in 50 years. I think I would love to see software that is 50 years old just die!
It becomes FREE, freer than ASL !! ??
Yes. It's called 'public domain' and it's different.
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?
Call it RedHat Apache.
Stefano.
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