I believe the key word below is "transferable", i.e., before checking any work in, it still needs to be copyright "The Apache Software Foundation" at the time of it being cvs committed. Dirk-Willem, might you know more about this? (Original comments in [1] below.)
But I noticed Simon already updated it to "The Authors"--all it needs to be next (I think) is ASF and we're done: http://www.leverkruid.nl/FOP/documentation-html/index.html We already have a dubious copyright notice in one of our source files [2, lines 36-37], dubious because the file has changed so many times by other people over the years that it is unknown whether the copyright holder actually still "owns" any of the code. I'm inclined against adding non-ASF copyrighted work to our repository, because once you have it there, it is difficult to get rid of, no matter how out-of-date that copyright gets. If anyone is not ready to transfer the copyright to their work, then it shouldn't be in our repository. Glen [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-dev&m=109079517313375&w=2 [2] http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-fop/src/java/org/apache/fop/render/rtf/ListAttributesConverter.java?annotate=1.7 --- Christian Geisert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Glen Mazza wrote: > > Simon, a word of caution*, I believe that anything > > that goes into the Apache repository will need to > be > > copyright The Apache Software Foundation and only > The > > Apache Software Foundation. (Just look at the > bottom > > No, the contribution is covered by the CLA (which > you should have read > and signed too ;-) > > See http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas, paragraph > 2: > > You hereby grant to the Foundation a > non-exclusive, irrevocable, > worldwide, no-charge, transferable copyright > license to use, > execute, prepare derivative works of, and > distribute (internally > and externally, in object code and, if included > in your > Contributions, source code form) your > Contributions. Except for the > rights granted to the Foundation in this > paragraph, You reserve all > right, title and interest in and to your > Contributions. > > > Christian >
