On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Glen Mazza wrote:
> their to-do lists and related files--so if this is an > oversight with us--so it is with everyone. Which is no reason not to fix i in fop-dev ASAP. We're an open source project; and the ASF needs every bit of help they can in making sure that we dot our i's and cross our 't's in this respect. Just to be clear; until we have the new license completed (any time now) each and every file which the committer communit would consider its work or its creation should have the ASF license and (c) right. Ideally each year in which active work was done on that file should be listed in the (c) right line. E.g. 1997-2003 if there was a substansive change every 6 years or 1998, 2003 if the file was only worked on this year after being stable for 4 years. Once we have the new license the 50 odd lines of explicit license in each and every file will in some cases be condensed to just a URL reference. Guidelines for this will be released around that time. In any case, each file will still need the (c) right claim, and in this case the URL. Note that in some cases it may be desireable to have the license at the end of the file, rather than at the beginning. Or it must be reformatted, have '#', '//' or '/*' front of it, be turned into UTF8 or have different line endings. All that is fine; the idea is just to make sure that no one can claim that they did not see an ASF license when they snarfed or copied just a few files. Should you worry about size increase; feel free to do a small experiment; zip or GZ a tar/zipfile with and without license. As you may see it compresses very very well. Thanks! Dw --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
