On Monday 26 January 2004 20:01 CET Duncan Findlay wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 08:11:44PM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > + * Copyright 2001-2002 by Craig Hughes
> > + * Conversion to a thread-safe shared library Copyright 2002 by Liam
> > Widdowson + * Portions Copyright 2002 by Brad Jorsch
> > + * Windows adaption Copyright 2004 by Sidney Markowitz
> > *
> > * <@LICENSE>
> > * Copyright 2004 Apache Software Foundation
>
> Isn't this really confusing? Can the same file be copyright by 4
> people as well as the ASF? Doesn't the CLA give us the right to simply
> distribute as "Copyright 2001-2004 Apache Software Foundation"
Actually, what is more confusing in my eyes is the Apache copyright stanza.
The file itself is copyrighted by as many people who have contributed code
to that file. So normally we'd have to have a whole list of Copyrights at
the head of each file.
The only instance in that list which doesn't "own" (at least according to
European law) any Copyright is the ASF. Because by signing the CLA we
didn't "give away" our copyrights to the ASF but more or less "licensed"
our stuff to them. So the ASF has "a right to copy" but no "copyright" :)
Cf. the CLA point 2.
I'd personally like to keep a list of major contributors (if they want) in
the files because that gives some acknowledgement to their work. I think
both Liam and Brad are listed there because they more or less directly
requested it. I added Sidney because he did some great work with his
Windows adaption. And call it a big ego, but I myself like to see my name
on files on which invested quite some time :)
Cheers,
Malte
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