On 11/15/2012 12:38 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
All that is required to clean up the headers is to have some sort of
official permission from IBM to ASF that allows it to be done. That
or an IBM-employed committer needs to be identified as authorized to
do it. The basic requirement is under "Source File Headers for Code
Developed at the ASF" at
<http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html> (A lengthy treatment
is at
<http://incubator.apache.org/guides/mentor.html#initial-ip-clearance>).
The process is simple:
"If the source file is submitted with a copyright notice included in
it, the copyright owner (or owner's agent) must either: "1.remove
such notices, or "2.move them to the NOTICE file associated with each
applicable project release, or "3.provide written permission for the
ASF to make such removal or relocation of the notices."
Andrew Rist provided this for the Oracle contribution. I don't
understand the hold-up for the IBM contribution.
um...people are busy? ... and we are also waiting on the move of the
source trunk to the TLP area.
Until we have a clear path on what will be imported from the symphony
branch into the main AOO product, fixing the licensing headers are not
of paramount importance in my opinion.
Also, this sort of thing is expected to be handled during incubation.
The specific statement is that "It is recommended that the initial
clean-up be is started before the code is committed. It MUST be
completed before any releases are cut."
Yes, we've discussed this. This code is NOT included in AOO, nor will it
be until the licensing issues area addressed. Think of it as being in a
"holding area", basically nothing more.
So there is flexibility so long as no code appears in releases, but
as you point out, code is leaking from the Symphony base into
releases "under the table." That is not healthy.
and @Pedro from your earlier post:
"FWIW, the code as is, has already been of use for bringing new stuff
into AOO 3.5."
Can you elaborate?
- Dennis
-----Original Message----- From: Pedro Giffuni
[mailto:p...@apache.org] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 10:15 To:
orc...@apache.org; dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: RE: Symphony IP
Cleanup
Hi Dennis;
I am afraid that what we are doing is exactly cherry picking code and
creating patches. AFAICT there is no one actively working on the
symphony code.
I wouldn't expect them to be...under the circumstances and our previous
discussions.
If I notice something I like, I open a bugzilla issue
and try to get someone from IBM to look at it.
The code still has unacceptable components (at least lcc cpp) and I
am not sure it builds. I guess if you find it too bothersome we could
move the code to Apache Extras, but it is still useful to be able to
look at it somewhere.
Pedro.
Ps. ApacheCon was fun indeed!
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