On Sep 15, 2004, at 3:59 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
On Sep 15, 2004, at 2:55 PM, Jennifer B Machovec wrote:I think the short-term (and maybe even long-term) resolution to the
copyright notice issue may be having the ASF copyright notice in each main
file clearly apply to the whole project. This could read, for example:
"Apache Derby is (c) Copyright The Apache Software Foundation 2004. All
rights reserved. " Then there's no implication of copyright ownership of
individual components. The third-party copyright attributions can be
included in the NOTICE file.
We need to limit NOTICE to acknowledging major contributions and fulfilling the advertising clause of third-party code. It would be a disaster if everyone with a copyright wanted to be in there.
+1000
As Roy notes, if any contributor has
included copyright attributions in a main file, and you don't want to
retain those notices in that location for policy reasons, then ASF needs
to ask the contributor/copyright owner to either remove them or authorize
ASF to do so on their behalf.
Larry Rosen (I mentioned the wrong Larry in the previous note) suggested that we place something like
Collective work Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation. [AL 2.0 Template]
Derivative work Copyright 2004 Some Other Contributor. Licensed to the ASF under a contributor agreement.
Copyright 2004 Contributor Company, Inc. Licensed to the ASF under a contributor agreement.
So Corporate entities get special handling (i.e., all I have to do is form an LLC and I can get my self listed in the notice file)?
The alternative being that we start asking for copyright assignments.
+1 (I actually thought that is what Apache was doing)
-dain
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