Alexei Fedotov wrote: > Hello, > > I found that the following files contained Intel's copyright. > > working_vm/vm/gc_gen/src/COPYRIGHT, > */COPYRIGHT, COPYRIGHT (and may be several others) > > While NOTICE file correctly explains that the copyright is actually > transferred to Apache, the COPYRIGHT files are still confusing. Might > this be a donation artifact which should be cleaned up?
Technically, Apache Software Foundation is not receiving the copyright on the donated files. Rather, it is licensing all donated material with the right to sublicense it under Apache License. So the copyright is still belongs to Intel, as is properly documented by COPYRIGHT file and noted in NOTICE [1]. The Apache release guidelines require to have a single NOTICE file in the released distributions, which is the concatenation of all relevant notices [2], [3]. To answer the original question in short, COPYRIGHT files may be removed from the repository, and care must be taken that the contents of NOTICE files ends up included to the released NOTICE files. [1] http://www.apache.org/licenses/ [2] http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#license [3] http://apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#notice
