Hi, >> -Every line of code was written by somebody, and therefore copyrighted by >> that somebody (or their employer).
Depends on the actually LICENSE. If you look at [1] you see that it states: 2. Grant of Copyright License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare Derivative Works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute the Work and such Derivative Works in Source or Object form. >> -There is an unwritten policy that says that Apache projects do not "take" >> code. It must be "donated". In this case IMO there's no need to, but it certainly doesn't hurt to ask the owner of the code for permission, even though it is already given by the license (see above). >> -The LICENSE file should provide pointers to third-party works That's is for MIT and BSD licensed works not Apache licensed works. Thanks, Justin 1. http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
