On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 00:38, robert burrell donkin wrote: > i've been making changes to some commons sub projects and came across some > source files with (what i call) the short form of the license eg. > > * Copyright (C) The Apache Software Foundation. All rights reserved. > * > * This software is published under the terms of the Apache Software > License > * version 1.1, a copy of which has been included with this distribution > in * the LICENSE file. > > rather than including the complete license text in every source file. > > i remember a big flame war about license style and i don't want to > re-ignite it but am i right in thinking that for legal reasons we need to > include the complete license text in every source file (rather than just > the short form)?
Not according to Brian Behlendorf (sp?) last time I heard him say anything about this. I think it should actually be in the archive of this list? > (i'm not going to change things if it's just a matter of house style, but > if it's a legal requirement then it's something that should be fixed.) It is not a legal requirement or anything like that. Theres a fair bit of nonsense about it going on - I even heard someone say it was "illegal" which made me chuckle. The main issues is one of policy and enforcability (is this a word?). However given it is policy that all projects conform to Suns development/code standards (yet less than 50% did last time I checked) you can ignore that for a bit. Whether it is enforcable enough seems to be debateable but everyone I have spoken to who actually knows anything about western legal systems (american and australian being the only two I care about at this stage) say there is no issue with either form. Be careful which people you choose to listen to. -- Cheers, Pete ------------------------------------------------------ Mark Twain: "In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place at the right time. It is the task of journalists and historians to rectify this error." ------------------------------------------------------ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
