I'm pretty sure Jeff's email isn't policy. People generally just document it as copyright of the ASF.
Carlos Sanchez wrote: > This legal stuff drives me crazy ;) > I'll try to read that long mail, but my concern is the following, > let's suppose something contributed to the ASF (not mojo) > > If the copyright holder is a person, its permission needs to be > obtained in order to do some stuff like change the license. The ASF > changed license from v.1 to v.2 and it can happen in the future. If > that person is not available anymore (eg. the person dies), the change > of license can't be done (or at least would be hard) > That's only true for the GPL where you aren't allowed to. The ASL let's you change the license if you want as long as the notice is in tact. > With mojos happen that if the community decide to move it from mojo to > maven at ASF we need to change the license from MIT to Apache, and > looking for agreement from all parties would be difficult. > Not necessary, the license allows it. Besides, half the stuff here is ASL anyway. - Brett
