On Sep 24, 2004, at 4:27 AM, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
okey, after discussing this in seven different directions, we
have a clear conclusion, which i'll summarise here:
A conclusion by whom? The board? Robyn? IBM?
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.
-1 The NOTICE file cannot contain restrictions on the license.
"All rights reserved" is a restriction -- it is contradicting
the irrevocable copyright license.
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. :-)
No, it does not. It means the code in the individual files is not
licensed under the AL2. It means that if someone wants to take an
individual function out of an individual file and add it to their
wizz-bang programmable dog, they have to ask permission from IBM.
In short, their is no F*ing way this is going into code at the ASF.
The copyright notice in the file has to say THIS FILE MAY BE COPIED
under the terms of the Apache License. It cannot just say "Apache
Derby" may be copied, since that name is not bound to any specific
expression, and copyright notices that are not bound to an expression
are null and void.
....Roy
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