IANAL, but the advice I've been given informally by IP lawyer friends many
years ago is don't change the existing copyright.
You could instead amend to something like:
Original version:
> Copyright (C) since 2016 Lightbend Inc.
> Subsequent changes made by the Apache Pekko community:
> Copyright
I would not modify the copyright notice. As it stands in the document
right now, it is set to expire in the year 2111. If you modify, you are
(incorrectly) extending that by a few years without any explicit request
or consent from Lightbend.
Copyright notices are mainly a guard against noncomp
Thanks Craig. I've created a Jira.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-645
On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 at 15:52, Craig Russell wrote:
>
> Hi PJ,
>
> I don't know the answer to your question but I do think that this is a
> non-standard copyright notice that should be changed.
>
> I'd suggest op
Hi PJ,
I don't know the answer to your question but I do think that this is a
non-standard copyright notice that should be changed.
I'd suggest opening a LEGAL JIRA for an official response (and perhaps once
it's resolved, it would be a good FAQ).
Warm regards,
Craig
> On Jun 26, 2023, at 07:
Hi everyone,
The Pekko community is working on a release of our core repository. We
have a number of other repositories that we will release later.
In one of these downstream repositories, the source code has Lightbend
copyrights that say (example [1]):
Copyright (C) since 2016 Lightbend Inc.
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