Oops, I didn't see that part of their license page.

Ok, we have to sign this contract.

As far as I understand, that's independent from the copyright header
below, i.e. we could stick with "Copyright Software AG". Correct?


Michael

On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 20:52, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> 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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