On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:48 AM, Prashant Shah <[email protected]> wrote: > I get your point. Although there is nothing wrong with it and it works > when the modifications are significant. Its just hard to maintain it > in source files where there are lots of minor modifications. (eg : > linux kernel)
1) In the context that the original license is used it's not used within the project. The Apache Software Foundation requires Contributor License Agreement and as such does not have to comply with this license clause in the operation of the project. So even if you go looking through the source files at the ASF you won't find a list of who modified a file in each file. In fact many ASF projects actually have a policy discouraging people from adding their names to specific files, to avoid creating the feeling that a specific file belongs to someone and that other shouldn't work on it. 2) If you changed a file once before you don't have to add another modification notice. The requirement is not to keep a changelog, but to mark that the file has been modified by you. I really don't see how that's hard to maintain. _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
