> For my understanding, isn’t it gonna be an issue to be copyrighted also to a single person? For the same reasons?
This was partly why I asked. I did a random check of libraries that are definite dependencies (netty, guava) and both contain author copyrights. On Fri, 22 Sept 2023, 16:01 Ekaterina Dimitrova, <e.dimitr...@gmail.com> wrote: > For my understanding, isn’t it gonna be an issue to be copyrighted also to > a single person? For the same reasons? > > On Fri, 22 Sep 2023 at 7:59, Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote: > >> >> >> Just for my understanding on this. Is the issue that the code has a >>> copyright header on it or that it is copyright to a corporate entity? >>> >> >> >> The potential issue here is about dependence upon one vendor (or >> commercial actor). >> If the project is not usable without a specific piece of work (library) >> that is controlled and maintained elsewhere, and exercising our freedom to >> rewrite/fork is difficult, the project isn't really independent. Being >> independent is an important tenant for ASF projects. >> >> I don't see this being an issue with jamm or jvector. But I do think >> it's important to check. >> >>
