On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Rob Weir <r...@robweir.com> wrote: > Hi Dennis, > > If I understand correctly, the practice at Apache would be to remove > these legacy copyright statements and aggregate them into a single > NOTICE document. This would be true, even if it says "DO NOT ALTER OR > REMOVE". I imagine they would even tear off those tags on mattresses.
Fully disagree: "Do not modify or remove any copyright notices or licenses within third-party works." -- http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html At times we have politely requested that the copyright holder remove their headers; but if we can not get agreement on that we respect the license terms under which the software has been offered. > -Rob - Sam Ruby > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <orc...@apache.org> wrote: >> I support this idea. >> >> I think with regard to need for an SGA or not, there is the matter of the >> current headings at the tops of source files. (I have no idea what is >> required, I'm simply >> observing what is there.) >> >> - Dennis >> >> "/************************************************************************ >> "* >> "* DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER >> "* >> "* Copyright 2008, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. >> "* Copyright 2009, 2010 IBM. All rights reserved. >> "* >> "* Use is subject to license terms. >> "* >> "* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may >> not >> "* use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy >> "* of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0. You can also >> "* obtain a copy of the License at http://odftoolkit.org/docs/license.txt >> "* >> "* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software >> "* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT >> "* WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. >> "* >> "* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and >> "* limitations under the License. >> "* >> "************************************************************************/" >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: rabas...@gmail.com [mailto:rabas...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Rob Weir >> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 12:43 >> To: general@incubator.apache.org >> Cc: d...@poi.apache.org; ooo-...@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: ODF Toolkit Incubation Pre-Proposal >> >> [ ... ] >> >> Also, since this is already an open source project with all code under >> Apache 2.0, I assume no SGA is required? >> >> So please let me know if you agree that Apache would be a good >> location to further develop the ODF Toolkit libraries. >> >> Regards, >> >> -Rob >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
