Geir,
I think the rule is so obvious once stated that no one is likely to disagree with it. In a perfect world, we would vote on such a rule in order to adopt it formally. However, we don't live in a perfect world with unlimited resources and the Jakarta tradition of lazy approval seems to apply. Regards, Ceki At 20:24 09.01.2002 -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: >On 1/9/02 12:53 PM, "Jon Scott Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> on 1/9/02 6:49 AM, "Sam Ruby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Ted Husted wrote: >>>> >>>> I think on a continuing basis, Committers should update the copyright >>>> notice to include the current year whenever they update a source file. >>>> This will happen most often in the early part of a year, but should >>>> happen year-round. So, as Peter said, if you revise a source file from >>>> 1999, you should change the copyright notice in the license to read >>>> 1999, 2002. If the file was from 2001, we would change it to 2001-2002. >>> >>> I have never bothered to learn the details (there are some topics I avoid >>> lest I become perceived as an expert on the subject ;-)), but when working >>> on software for my employer (who has a tendency of being careful about such >>> things), we tend to follow the roughly the rules specified above. >> >> Hey Ted, can you update source.xml (or whatever appropriate jakarta-site2 >> file) in order to get that little rule 'documented'? >> > >Here's a quick question - what makes that a rule? Ted putting it into a >file? > >I don't disagree with the suggestion - I mean, we need to do it - I am just >asking what makes it a rule now.... > > >On the issue itself, isn't this something that should be uniformly done >across all Apache projects? > >I would think that since it's part of the License, we want uniformity. > >-- >Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] >System and Software Consulting >You're going to end up getting pissed at your software >anyway, so you might as well not pay for it. Try Open Source. > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Ceki G�lc� - http://qos.ch -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
