Wow, mails like this make me find new hope. Maybe I should resume my crusade to improve licensing policies at Apache and clarify open questions.
http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?Licensing updated with this new piece of information (copyright years, which was an open question there). On 06.07.2003 17:45:13 Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > > > 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. Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
