On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > My understanding is that it is not permissible to remove Copyright notices. > In the absence of an SGA, this has to be treated as third-party code under a > friendly license. >
Read the rest of the thread. We are talking about getting an SGA for this code. And I'm pretty sure I have the ability to remove IBM copyright notices and consolidate into NOTICE.txt > There are web pages on the Apache site that cover this and the case of an SGA > that grants a license to Apache. > > This <http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html> describes how code that > is directly contributed is identified. > > Note that this is different than for code written entirely within the > project. If the copyright owner does not make the contribution and perform > one of the 3 steps, the third-party works case applies. > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Burch [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 04:11 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Source code checked in, what next? > > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Daisy Guo wrote: >> At the head of every source code file, there is a copyright >> statement,saying that the copyright is owned by IBM or Oracle. Will >> these copyright statement bring any issues? Do we need to remove it? > > They will need to be replaced with the standard Apache license header, > once we have an appropriate grant (I believe, best check on > general@incubator though to be sure) > > Nick > >
