On 4 Nov 2011, at 16:42, Ross Gardler wrote: > Steve is in transit for a few days (on and off) so let me lighten his > load and reply for him (we work together). > > > See inline... > > On 4 November 2011 16:35, Scott Wilson (Commented) (JIRA) > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> [ >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WOOKIE-253?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13144134#comment-13144134 >> ] >> >> Scott Wilson commented on WOOKIE-253: >> ------------------------------------- >> >> Thanks Steve I've tested it and it works fine! >> >> So happy to add to scratchpad. >> >> Just one more thing... the code is all marked Copyright 2011 University of >> Oxford; as its all ASL 2.0 licensed that isn't a problem in terms of >> including it, just wondering if the intention was to donate the code? >> > > Code is never "donated" to the ASF, it is only ever licensed so the > existence of any copyright headers is still relevant and we cannot > remove them. However, we can ask the contributor to remove them and > instead put an entry in the notice file.
Just an aside - what is the process whereby code becomes part of the project itself and no longer requires an entry in NOTICE? > It's better to remove them as it keeps the code clean, but only a > representative of the contributing org can do so (unless we have an > SLA on file). > > In this case I happen to be able to remove these headers (as I am a > part of the same contract that produced this and am named on Oxfords > CCLA). > > In other words, I'll do the commit for you now. Cheers Ross! > > Ross
