Jean T. Anderson wrote:
Scott Eade wrote:
Jean T. Anderson wrote:
==> Scott, here's one more item on the check list you can take care
after you upload the code to the temp location:
"Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been
updated to reflect the new ASF copyright."
Is it good enough that this will be addressed when the code is imported
or do we need to go to the trouble of wrestling it first - I was hoping
for the former rather than the latter.
It should be wrestled before actually being committed to the asf repo,
That is my "good enough" strategy above - we can fix the licenses when
we do the commit.
but the good news is there's a really handy tool in the committers repo
to help do exactly that:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/relicense/src/perl/insert_license.pl
There is also Henning's CodeWrestler tool. There aren't that many files
anyway so a manual update is not out of the question.
I usually run this tool in "practice" mode on code that will be imported
to quickly identify if there are any missing or any non-apache licenses
in it. Many folks in the incubator also use a RAT tool, but I like the
insert_license.pl feature of also being able to update headers to the
right one. (Derby used insert_license.pl last year to switch to the new
ASF headers.)
And I, oops, should have mentioned earlier these two items on the ip
clearance check list:
"Check and make sure that for all items included with the distribution
that is not under the Apache license, we have the right to combine with
Apache-licensed code and redistribute."
"Check and make sure that all items depended upon by the project is
covered by one or more of the following approved licenses: Apache, BSD,
Artistic, MIT/X, MIT/W3C, MPL 1.1, or something with essentially the
same terms."
The actual list of approved ("Category A") licenses is at
http://people.apache.org/~cliffs/3party.html
All of the code is currently licensed under a variant to ASL 1.1 - just
to Working-Dogs.com rather than to The ASF.
sorry for the earlier ommission, I posted before sufficient coffee.
At any rate, that committers tool should nail all these birds with one
stone.
Tonight I'll commit the torque-village check list to the incubator repo
as a work-in-progress (it doesn't have to be complete until we notify
the incubator about the import), then post the link to it here.
Thanks,
Scott
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