On 2 Feb 2004, at 10:24, Michael Hartmeier wrote:
I want to prepare the license/copyright header in the source files to be donated. According to http://www.apache.org/licenses/ we should use the apache 2 license, which means the header would look like this:
* Copyright 1999-2004 Software AG * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, * software distributed under the License is distributed on an * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, * either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions * and limitations under the License.
I wonder about the copyright holder. Is it ok to stick with a Software AG copyright or do we have to transfer it to Apache Software Foundation?
You have to transfer it to the ASF and you have to sign the CLA if you haven't done so already.
SoftwareAG still retains copyright as the original owner, but the ASF gets a non-revocable, worldwide, permanent ability to distribute it and make derivative copies of it. And for this, it must be given copyright.
-- Stefano.
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