On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Johan Lindquist <jo...@kawoo.co.uk> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Niclas, > > Much appreciated! > > And thanks for the poke over at the Attic! > > And about the Attic, not sure if you saw the questions relating to the > copyright we had over there - what is your opinion in terms of how to > deal with this - obviously Apache would like the copyright to remain, > but it would now only be valid until 2009 I would assume - any new code > would not fall under their copyright. Does OPS4J define any rules for this?
We don't have rules, but we follow Copyright law and licensing agreements. So, for Gaderian that means roughly the following; * The Apache license header stays in all files. Your code is also going to be Apache licensed so there is no real conflict. * The Apache license header is complemented (but nothing deleted) with a "Copyright 2009, Niclas Hedhman." by each person make change big enough to warrant a Copyright claim. * The NOTICE file has "Portions of this work includes work from The Apache Software Foundation." and possibly point to the last known location in their SVN. If you know Apache well, they don't claim Copyright on any individual file. The reason is that most of the committers are not employed by the Foundation, and legally not allowed to do so without a Copyright Assign, a legal agreement between the committer and Apache that they sign over the Copyright to the foundation. FSF on the other hand, does this. FSF owns the Copyright of all GNU software. In Apache code, you don't see "Copyright 2009..." but some vague text saying that the foundation has a license from the copyright owner to license and distribute the code. Cheers -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java I live here; http://tinyurl.com/2qq9er I work here; http://tinyurl.com/2ymelc I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug _______________________________________________ general mailing list general@lists.ops4j.org http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/general
