At 11:35 AM 6/8/01 +0100, Jasper Potts wrote:
>I am starting a new open source project and would like to use the apache
>licence for two reasons: the ability to use the code in commercial projects
>and in the hope that one day it may get accepted as a Jakarta project. I
>have a couple of questions as to how to apply the licence:
>
>Does the full licence have to be included at the top of each file or can it
>be included in the distribution with a smaller include at the top, like GPL?
Both are equally binding, however only a few projects that I know of use
the short form are Avalon+James+Cocoon so YMMV.
>Also can/how do you use you own copyright with that apache licence. All
>examples I have looked at are copyright "Apache Software Foundation"?
As far I am aware the license itself is not copyrighted so you can simply
modify it to suit your needs.
>Is it frowned upon to want to retain the copyright?
If it is not an Apache project then you should keep copyright.
Cheers,
Pete
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