I was nosing around in the web pages at
http://incubator.apache.org/openoffice/www/ to understand exactly what is going
on with addition of "Copyright 2011 The Apache Software Foundation" as a footer
and the inclusion of the
<!-- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
[ ... ]
-->
as HTML comments in the <head> element of pages, etc.
1. I am not clear what principle is being applied here and what the conditions
of its application might be. (I'm not sure where there is {intended to be} a
NOTICE file, either.) [The project notes for this don't mention this
particular kind of change.]
2. I also see that this page, which is in that www sandbox too, has those
modifications:
<http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/www/terms_of_use.html>. But the
content appears to be the same as this: <http://openoffice.org/terms_of_use>,
so somehow the Apache copyright notice doesn't seem apt.
3. MORE EXCITING is that the OpenOffice.org page itself is identified as
having been revised on 2011-07-29 and it has this fascinating statement (also
found on our www-sandbox copy):
"[4.]b. Source Code Submissions. You agree that any source code You contribute
to a Project will be submitted under, and subject to, the license posted for
that Project. If no license is posted, You agree that Your Submission will be
governed by the Apache License, Version 2.0, which terms can be found at
http://opensource.org/licenses/apache2.0.php. You acknowledge that You are
responsible for including all applicable copyright notices and licenses with
Your Submissions, and that You assume the risks of failing to do so, including
the potential loss of Your rights to Your Submissions."
Does anyone know what this said before, when it was changed, and who changed
it? Or has it been this way pretty much all along?
-- Dennis
