On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 01:08 -0400, Rahul Akolkar wrote: > I recently came across a code contribution [ > http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35740 ], which > contains the > > Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner] > > line in every file as pointed out in the Appendix at the bottom of [ > http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt ]. > > The appendix talks about "How to apply the Apache License to your > work", does it also hold for code submitted for inclusion in existing > Apache projects? While the above contribution may be useful, I wanted > to check what the norm is within Jakarta, or Apache for accepting code > submissions with such copyright lines. > > Thanks, > -Rahul > > P.S.-Originally asked here [ > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=taglibs-dev&m=112146053822157&w=2 ] >
This was discussed briefly on [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can find my opinion (which I haven't changed) here: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200502.mbox/% [EMAIL PROTECTED] Basically, I think it's legal for code submitted to apache to have the copyright of the original author but there are good reasons to avoid this if possible. Certainly the "norm" for commons projects is to have only one copyright statement, being that of the ASF. I'd be interested to know if there is a general Apache policy on this. IANAL and all that. Regards, Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
