Carlos Sanchez wrote: > On 2/10/06, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> a) we allow people to own the copyright (Copyright bla bla Carlos Sanchez) >>> - that person needs to allow change of license >>> - when somebody contributes he should (or may want to) add his name to >>> the copyright >>> - if we move a plugin to ASF we can do it, adding the ASF and keeping >>> the old one, notice should state that parts are one license while >>> other parts are ASF >> Or removing the old one if everyone is brought with it, which is usually >> necessary for auditing anyway (they need to sign clas, and a code grant). > > That's a problem if the person can't be contacted >
We can always use it with both, as you said. I'm not exactly sure what Apache's requirements are if we know where some code came from and the author can't be contacted. Based on the license I'd hope its not an issue. >> 3) We allow but discourage people to put their own name in the >> copyright. We use The Codehaus as the copyright name. > > I think to avoid problems we shouldn't allow it. > The case I remember is dbunit where the curent developers would like > to change from GPL to ASL but they can't get hold of one of the first > contributors (or something like that) I have no problem with this, but I don't think it makes a bit of difference legally. IIUC, you always own your own copyright. All you can ever do is assign rights to someone else to administer it, or license it for people to do certain things with it. - Brett
