-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- okey, after discussing this in seven different directions, we have a clear conclusion, which i'll summarise here:
1. the NOTICE file (or NOTICE.txt) gets created if it doesn't already exist, and this gets added to it: Portions of Apache Derby are © Copyright 2004 International Business Machines Corporation. All rights reserved. if there are earlier copyright years in any any of the main files, the earliest one of all should be taken and used to change the notice to 'Copyright <earliest-year>, 2004 International ..'. in other words, the range of copyright years in the NOTICE file should be the earliest one with IBM's name on it in the sources, followed by ', 2004'. 2. the ibm copyright in the individual files gets replaced with Apache Derby © Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights reserved. and reference to the apache licence added as described in http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html#apply et vóilà! that item can then get checked off the incubation goal list and we can focus on *real* code issues. :-) see also http://www.apache.org/dev/apply-license.html for common questions about this stuff. the procedure above, which has finally been clarified, should be used by the incubator folks to update that file at some point. - -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Ken.Coar.Org/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBQVQEoprNPMCpn3XdAQFadwP9GvqVgzI6tUffUeJh80QofQ5kmQr4hq7K NKDjnZHzjbMH5aGrximoeXSly9L/a96/7r0ESfBRI+xoy4NQZ0C9ebuj41qeO0DU jAxE4tE0bLZx+kvZ0VwyjbBI095I9hy3b2D7hOMuUTBTJGvaYztlQYiZjqr+d5HT tuj9tNE4Xj8= =Lg7h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]