Hi Justin, Thanks for the additional context and for clarifying how the ASF policy applies here. That makes sense.
We will update the NOTICE file to use the appropriate year range and include this change in the next release candidate. Best, Xuan On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 4:31 PM Justin Mclean <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Xuan, > > Thanks for looking into this, but the reasoning doesn't hold, and I'd ask > you to fix the NOTICE file rather than keep the current wording. > > What other projects have in their NOTICE files is not precedent. ASF > policy is documented in the ASF Source Header and Copyright Notice Policy > [1], not in the wording of other projects' repositories. If other projects > use "and onwards", that means those projects have also deviated from the > documented format, and nobody has corrected it yet. An uncorrected mistake > elsewhere doesn't make the same mistake acceptable here; it's a reason to > raise the issue with those projects, not to copy it. > > The documented format is a plain year range: "Copyright [yyyy]-[yyyy] The > Apache Software Foundation", covering the actual years of the ASF's > contributions. "And onwards" also has no legal meaning, as a copyright > notice records years of publication and can't claim years that haven't > happened or works that don't yet exist. > > Thanks, > Justin > > [1] > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html*notice__;Iw!!CzAuKJ42GuquVTTmVmPViYEvSg!OyXiBRTz3M0tO0RveLBQTFSpJanj2ZGLIuD7dcD34xNha3WsjFOM70GvFKuu0a6n9w1OVwockSdNnDhWYJk$ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
