Sylvain Wallez wrote:
Ralph Goers wrote:
Well, I'm not really sure how to vote on this. I've pasted an email from Larry Rosen to the Apache Legal list that seems to say that the Cocoon source files should not have the Apache copyright in them, but instead have the copyright of the committers who made the contibution. Obviously, this is in direct contrast to what we are doing and frankly, I think its nuts.
While this doesn't have a lot to do with the @author tags, per se, it does seem to indicate that the files should have a "record of ownership".
Oh my... do we have to add a copyright notice for every one-line patch send by people?
I see a difference in Larry's post between original work that pre-existed outside the ASF and is later contributed to the ASF, and work that was developped directly for the ASF. So this non-ASF copyright could be applicable to donations, but not to our collective everyday work on the code base.
Well, that may be true, but not being a lawyer I really don't know. As I read it I understood Larry basically saying, "We provide the legal guidance, but we can't make you do anything". However, I guess I'd like somebody to clarify this to the point that we really understand what we should be doing.
Ralph
