Hi,
I noticed a couple of times recently 3rd party headers have been changed.
Please stop doing this. No one on the project can change the headers on a file
without the correct process being followed. Doing so will just make IP province
harder and graduating the project much more difficult.
In order to change 3rd party headers, for large numbers of files that generally
means we would need a software grant, ICLAs from all contributors and IP
clearance.
If it's a small number of files and owned by a single owner then we need
documented evidence on this mailing list that the license can be changed. That
doesn’t mean that the files are now "Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation
(ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements.“.
The Apache license doesn’t change copyright so we would still need to clearly
indicate the copyright owner of the files and use the 3rd party ASF header
shown below.
Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
Thanks,
Justin
