On 2/23/06, David M Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Comments inline... > > > On Feb 23, 2006, at 11:52 AM, Ted Husted wrote: > > On 2/23/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On the one hand it's bad to have non-ASF copyrighted code in the ASF > >> repository; on the other hand it might make the rollerweblogger > >> releases from the committers harder to do. > > > > I guess I don't understand the problem. Do we have ASF committers that > > are adament that individual copyrights must be retained in material > > that is donated to the foundation? (We did have that case with > > another project.) > > I don't believe so. However, when I was researching the move to > Apache some people told me that copyright DID NOT have to be > signed over to Apache. Despite those capital letters, I don't really > have a strong opinion on this topic. > > Has Sun insisted on keeping Sun copyright on committer contributions > on other Apache projects?
Interesting. I've never heard of Apache code not being copyrighted to the ASF - ignoring the grey period of Incubation. Personal copyrights seem even more of a pain in the arse to maintain in the long term than > > Even if the board relaxes the policy that every file licensed to the > > ASF include our copyright, we still need to deal with ambigous files > > like > > > > * https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/roller/trunk/src/org/ > > roller/business/AutoPingManagerImpl.java > > > > which bear only the copyright of an individual and don't mention the > > ASF at all. > > > > Even then, I believe the policy would be to either place 1 copyright > > notice in licensed files running soley to the ASF, -OR- 0 copyright > > notices in licensed files, and a COPYRIGHT.txt listing all parties. > > > > Right now, we seem to be dong neither :) > > > > What is the Roller PPMC's policy? > > Good question ;-) Very interested in hearing if there are any reasons for things not to eventually be copyright ASF. > > And, do we have paperwork on file for "past members" Mindaguas Idzelis > > and Jaap Van Der Molen? (I couldn't find any.) > > No we don't. Definitely a new todo then. Obtain software grants (I assume, rather than ICLAs) from Mindaguas and Jaap. > When I started Roller, I thought that all contributions would become > copyright by me. Later I realized that was not the open source norm and > I started leaving copyrights on the files. Legal norm :) > Recently, I've be adding "Copyright Sun" on code I write for Sun and > "Copyright Dave Johnson" for other code I contribute (e.g. the Atom > protocol implementation I wrote in off-hours for my book). Is any of the Roller code "Copyright Sun" now? Hen
