I completely agree with Christian's comment and extract of the CLA. I have signed it and thereby it applies to any work I commit to FOP's repository. That is my intention with the documentation.
I wrote 'copyright the Authors', with the idea that every contributor adds his name as an author. But that is indeed probably not right. I will change it to ASF. The files themselves already have the Apache License 2 text. Regards, Simon On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 04:16:18AM -0700, Glen Mazza wrote: > 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 difficult to get rid of, no matter how out-of-date 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 > > > -- Simon Pepping home page: http://www.leverkruid.nl
