-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- all right, since roy has thrown yet another spanner in the works, Don't Anybody Do Anything.
Roy T. Fielding wrote: > >> 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. i asked jennifer about that before posting this, and she disagrees with you. i'll let her explain it. >> 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. okey, it's clear that this has to be resolved by lawyers, and specifically to a resolution acceptable to the asf counsel, since the advice we're getting from ibm's lawyers isn't universally satisfactory. so, everybody on the derby code team: forget the frickin' copyright issue and just work on the code while we get the legal bunfight settled. - -- #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 iQCVAwUBQVVd0JrNPMCpn3XdAQHiMwP/U4xB/PRwz/D+yNbMKr/aS2a3sawp4HSL 2JIjFB6jzjGyRHxD4VP7Mhu9fo2MHyIXrSJEbIdMwz619RDLIoJ2Jg3GOyHKYL8e jxikVnjrVVSucbhIi1I4b4WB8yHUk4eGWlzcD3Z+s0/BcNJLEZ+2d/QLhObGzF3p jamaWGqEmLU= =X4mL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
