On Wednesday 04 May 2005 16:16, Sylvain Wallez wrote: > The copyright attribution to the ASF seems to be problematic as it seems > that, at least in some countries, an author cannot give its copyright.
Exactly. All variants exist, and effectively creating a nightmare. Furthermore, I assume it is even more difficult considering some people who are residing/working/citizen of more than one country, and/or work for companies in yet more countries. What I am worried about is that employees of USA companies will not be able to contribute to the ASF, due to this legal BS. (Getting a (large) company to sign the CCLA without any direct benefits will barely ever happen.) > At Jackrabbit for example, they have no author tags and their source > files start with "Copyright 2004-2005 The Apache Software Foundation or > its licensors, as applicable". This should cover both the collective > work on which the ASF has copyright and the copyright of individual > contributors �that have licenced their work to the ASF. And on legal-discuss@ this formulation has come up, and deemed (by the lawyers) not valid. Cheers Niclas
