Marshall Schor wrote:
Jean T. Anderson wrote:
Overall the release looks good to me. I verified the *.asc signatures
and looked more closely at uimaj-2.1.0-incubating-src.tar.gz .
I noticed just one thing that struck me as odd in the user
documentation. The "UIMA Documentation Overview" in
uima-docbooks/src/index.html includes an IBM copyright line after the
Apache copyright:
Copyright © 2006, 2007 The Apache Software Foundation
Copyright © 2004, 2006 International Business Machines Corporation
The Apache copyright is for the collected work published by Apache, and
the NOTICE file collects all copyright notices and attributions. I don't
know if adding non-Apache copyrights to the user doc is correct, so
somebody more knowledgeable needs to say for sure.
I give this release a +1 (but realize somebody might authoritatively say
that the copyright in the overview doc needs to change).
We are of course happy to do whatever is correct here. The rationale
for doing it this way was 2-fold.
First: although *source code* no longer is supposed to have "copyright"
statements in the headers
(it only has license statements); the documentation (when formatted as a
book for printing)
traditionally has copyright statements.
Second: the documentation is often printed into a book (it has a table
of contents, page numbers, etc.,). As such it
would be somewhat more likely to be independently "distributed" than
source code. If we are going to
put copyright statements in the book, it seemed appropriate to include
the copyright statement that would
have otherwise been in the notices file.
Such a book 'independently "distributed"' still has to adhere to the
terms of the Apache Software Licence v2 which requires a readable form
of the notice file (see 4d in ASLv2).
Maybe these IBM copyright notices would form a "readable version" of the
notice file? I don't think an ASF distribution needs to contain them, a
producer of a book would have to incorporate them into their book.
IANAL,
Dan.
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