Hypothetically speaking...Need to think before I hit submit. :)
I was wondering for a while how one could take a project that does or does not have single copyright owner and merge that with a main Apache project. asynchhbase came to mind (much better client than the one we have) ________________________________ From: lars hofhansl <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 8:48 PM Subject: Re: FYI: Note that there is no need for copyright in hbase src code going forward Ah OK, so that's how we could fork asynchhbase without writing over the copyright? ________________________________ From: Stack <[email protected]> To: HBase Dev List <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 4:55 PM Subject: FYI: Note that there is no need for copyright in hbase src code going forward Henry Yandell a while back noted that the copyright is not actually needed in Apache source files. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3870 for a reference to the mail he sent me pointing to Apache doc where the header format is described. St.Ack
