Denis, +1 this plan makes total sense to me. Cheers, Chris
-----Original Message----- From: Denis Nadeau <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 10:07 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Cc: jpluser <[email protected]>, "Carriere, Laura E. (GSFC-606.2)[COMPUTER SCIENCE CORP]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Adding headers to obs4MIPs >Mike, > >It seems from what I am reading that you can add the NOSA copyright at >the end of the NOTICE file. At least this section needs to be in the >NOTICE file: > >Copyright © 2012-2013 United States Government as represented by the >Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. All >Other Rights Reserved > >You can delete the Header section from the source files and put the ASF >copyright instead. As long as the copyright is in the NOTICE file, we >should be fine. > >They also want a changelog file showing that it is a modification from >the Original software. maybe in the CHANGES.txt file we could say: > >** New Feature > * [CLIMATE-!!!] - Adding obs4MIPs 1.0 from NASA > >Does this make sense? > >Denis > >On 09/17/2013 11:00 AM, Michael Joyce wrote: >> Hi Denis, >> >> I was perusing the ASF docs on source headers [1] and it seems like they >> want us to move Copyright notifications out of the source code headers >>and >> into the NOTICE file. What does everyone think about this? I'm not very >> familiar with this process so hopefully someone more versed in this >>stuff >> can comment. >> >> I'll take care of updating the licenses and dropping the setup file. >> >> [1] https://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html >> >> Cheers! >> Mike >> >> >> -- Joyce >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 8:18 AM, denis.nadeau <[email protected]> >>wrote: >> >>> Hi Joyce, >>> >>> I wanted to deleted that setup.sh and did not have time to do it. As >>>for >>> the copyright, I've read the lawyer document and it seems that section >>>B, C >>> and D applies here, in "OBLICATIONS OF RECIPIENT" section. So we can >>> delete the license up to the copyright section. I followed GEOS5.org >>> opensource software for the copyright... >>> >>> B. Each Recipient must ensure that the following copyright notice >>>appears >>> prominently in the Subject Software: >>> Copyright © 2012-2013 United States Government as represented by the >>> Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. All >>> Other Rights Reserved >>> >>> C. Each Contributor must characterize its alteration of the Subject >>> Software as a Modification and must identify itself as the originator >>>of >>> its Modification in a manner that reasonably allows subsequent >>>Recipients >>> to identify the originator of the Modification. In fulfillment of these >>> requirements, Contributor must include a file (e.g., a change log file) >>> that describes the alterations made and the date of the alterations, >>> identifies Contributor as originator of the alterations, and consents >>>to >>> characterization of the alterations as a Modification, for example, by >>> including a statement that the Modification is derived, directly or >>> indirectly, from Original Software provided by Government Agency. Once >>> consent is granted, it may not thereafter be revoked. >>> >>> D. A Contributor may add its own copyright notice to the Subject >>>Software. >>> Once a copyright notice has been added to the Subject Software, a >>>Recipient >>> may not remove it without the express permission of the Contributor who >>> added the notice. >>> >>> Denis >>> >>> On 9/16/13 10:34 AM, Michael Joyce wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I was going to go through the obs4MIPs code to add any necessary >>>headers >>> but first I wanted to make sure we were all on the same page. Are we >>> replacing all the NOSA headers with ASF headers or are we just adding >>> headers to any files that aren't currently licensed? >>> >>> Also, I wanted to confirm that we could drop [1]. It seems to be >>>machine >>> dependent but I wasn't sure if we were keeping it in there as an >>>example >>> (in which case we should make it machine agnostic as well =) >>> >>> Cheers! >>> >>> >>>[1]https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/climate/trunk/obs4MIPs/set >>>up.sh >>> >>> -- Joyce >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ----------------------------------------------------- >>> Denis Nadeau, (CSC) >>> NCCS (NASA Center for Climate Simulation) >>> NASA Goddard Space Flight Center >>> Mailcode 606.2 >>> 8800 Greenbelt Road >>> Greenbelt, MD 20771 >>> Email: [email protected] >>> Phone: (301) 286-7286 Fax: 301.286.1634 >>> ----------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> >
