On Mon, 22 Jul 2013, Darren Roberts wrote:
Just wondering what the form is when using code from elsewhere in the
POI project when it comes to denoting authorship?
We're trying to remove the @author tags, to follow the current ASF best
practice. (There isn't just one person who "owns" the code, it's a
community effort)
However, if you're going to be making changes to the POI source code,
distributing those changes yourself in source form, but not contributing
them back, then be aware of clause 4b of the license:
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html#redistribution
(You basically need to make clear to people that you've made changes to
the source file and it's no longer a stock file, so they know to bug you
for support for your customised version not us!)
For example on my current task enhancing XSSFTextBox I have pulled in
from the XSLF src a number of files defining enums, and some code from
the equivalent functionality in XSLF, but made significant changes in
the process.
Patches are very much welcome :)
Nick
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