Matthias Seidel wrote:
When I look at the installed DEB packages on my Ubuntu system (e.g. with
"dpkg -s openoffice") I see "Copyright: 2012 by The Apache Software
Foundation".
Looking at [1] and how it was handled at OpenOffice.org I think it
should be "2012-2018" now.
I would commit it to trunk this weekend if there are no reasons against it.
I agree in general. I'll also note that this is not the "main" or
"official" copyright statement. Seeing
https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/ooo/trunk/main/setup_native/source/packinfo/packinfo_office_lang.txt?r1=1167537&r2=1233792&pathrev=1233792&diff_format=h
I would ask legal-discuss for advice and give them the link above, as it
is entirely possible that (notwithstanding whatever was done in 2012) we
may have to honor the previous copyright notes. This is the continuation
of the OpenOffice code, so it seems fair to claim something like
"1999-2011 by OpenOffice.org [OpenOffice.org is actually a bit unclear],
2011-2018 by the Apache Software Foundation".
Anyway, my advice is: something should be done and it is very good that
you raised it; legal-discuss is one of the (not many) ASF-wide lists
where, despite some occasional trolling, people give clear, justified,
reasonable answers; whatever they suggest will work for us, even though
this is, if I see correctly, just a package annotation and not the
"official" copyright statement accompanying the software.
Since the discussion might extend to what to write in the About Box and
such, I perfectly understand if you go ahead with your proposal in the
meantime and then then rectify when legal-discuss reaches a consensus.
Regards,
Andrea.
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