2009/1/8 Antonio <antonio.petre...@gmail.com>:
> 2009/1/8 Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@gmail.com>:
>>> The software grant *donates* the code to the foundation, so all the
>>> rights become of Apache itself, not of the owners.
>>> The previous owners of the right will be mentioned only in the IP
>>> (intellectual property) clearance form.
>>> In your case I suggest to:
>>> 1. add the code in your software;
>>> 2. add the copyright information on the top of the file that contains
>>> it, before the license header.
>>> 3. add in the NOTICE file a reference like this:
>>> This software contains code developed by (copyright owner) for the
>>> project (name of the project): (project website).
>>
>> cool. So I can create a patch (with copyright information) myself and
>> go on, not caring about software grants?
>
> Yep, it's the ASL that permits it :-)

Thinking on it twice, if it uses ASL v.1.1, I think it's better to
copy the entire license header because of this statement:

<snip>
Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
</snip>

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