Hi Salikh, Alexey, Salikh does indeed give a really good explanation and some good links. Before this, I did not know where exactly the requirements were documented for Apache. Thanks Salikh!
Based on reading those links, I am wondering if the Harmony NOTICE files are following the right format. http://apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#notice describes a very specific format to the NOTICE files. The specific one in the directory that Alexei was talking about http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/harmony/enhanced/drlvm/trunk/vm/gc_gen/src/ NOTICE?revision=476395 does not follow that format. All of the CCLAs that accompany each bulk contribution were filed to PMC and on to the Apache Incubator... See http://harmony.apache.org/contribution_policy.html. This indicates that all of these documents are stored in an adminstrative part of svn. I am not quite sure where that is or if it is available to everyone to see... I do wonder if CCLAs are still tracked/registered with the Apache Incubator project now that we are no longer incubating or if they are registered directly by the Harmony PMC. Thanks! Chris Elford Intel SSG/Enterprise Solutions Software Division -----Original Message----- From: Alexei Fedotov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 12:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [general] confusing COPYRIGHT files 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
