Ross Gardler wrote: > >Author: diwaker > >Date: Mon Nov 21 23:23:21 2005 > >New Revision: 348114 > > > >URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=348114&view=rev > >Log: > >Added sample resume. Obtained from > >http://xmlresume.sourceforge.net/examples/example2.xml > > > >PS: do I need to add a license for this? I hope not. I mean we can always > >create our own sample from this skeleton. This is just to get things > >started.
Even to "create our own sample from this skeleton" we would need to retain the copyright notice in the document. The file's license conditions are very explicit about that. > I'm going to try and answer this, others will correct any mistakes I > make - we never stop learning about this legal stuff. > > We cannot put anything in SVN if it is not released under a compatible > license - even if it is temporary. SVN has a history and our > users/developers assume everything in any part of our SVN is under a > ASL2 compatible license. > > If something is not under the ASL2 license and is the copyrights are not > owned by the ASF then we *must* attach a license file as per the > conditions of the items license. And the license of these products must not impose any conditions that go beyond the Apache License 2. > If you are unsure then one should ask before committing. Ask first on > the projects dev list and if we don't know the answer then escalate it > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You mean [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---- > > In this case the license *is* ASL2 compatible and the file already > includes the necessary license header, so all is OK. We also put a copy of the license next to the files. Soon the ASF are going to issue some guidelines about which licenses are compatible and how to correctly address this. I gather that we will need to put a copy of every license into our top-level forrest/LICENSE.txt file. So we will then need to revisit our whole codebase and follow those guidelines. -David
