Salikh, Thank you for a nice explanation! BTW, the NOTICE file mentions "Intel Harmony CLA" agreement which should allow sublicensing. I wonder if the inaccessibility of this agreement to public may prove a problem for someone who is going to use Harmony and checks legal prerequisites.
On 8/8/07, Salikh Zakirov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > -- With best regards, Alexei, ESSD, Intel
