Re: NOTICE Text

From: Jean T. Anderson (jt..ristowhill.com)
Date: Tue Jul 18 2006 - 14:36:48 EDT

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    Andrus Adamchik wrote:
    > Jean, as usual, thanks for providing the useful info.
    >
    > My take on it - this is yet another insanity coming from the world
    > ruled by lawyers, and we have no choice, but comply. As far as the
    > exported wiki-docs, I guess we'll have to augment the ant script with
    > the header addition step. We can do the same thing for the generated
    > test classes (generate with standard template, and then postprocess
    > with Ant to add a header). Maven migration is going to be fun...

    Are the wiki-docs included in the product distribution? If so, then
    they definitely need the header.

    If they're only displayed on the web site, then
    http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html says content displayed on a
    web site doesn't need it. (But if that web site gets included in the
    product distribution it does need the header.)

    Here's what does NOT need the header:
    http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#faq-exceptions

    When in doubt, add the header.

     -jean

    > Andrus
    >
    >
    > On Jul 18, 2006, at 2:13 PM, Jean T. Anderson wrote:
    >
    >> Gentry, Michael (Contractor) wrote:
    >>
    >>> I think I'm going to make the strategic decision, for now, that
    >>> XML/DTD/etc is data and not code and doesn't need the ASF header.
    >>> Jean/etc can chime in on this later if they want.
    >>
    >>
    >> I haven't read this thread very carefully this morning :-) but
    >> documentation source needs the header, and the policy does apply to
    >> documentation files included in a release according to
    >> http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html . For example, for derby,
    >> this means the dita xml source for documentation needs the header, as do
    >> the html files generated from that xml source.
    >>
    >> Picture it this way: if somebody wants to reuse a particular file, we
    >> want the license governing use/reuse of that file to be clear.
    >>
    >> helpful context:
    >>
    >> http://tinyurl.com/m7jrq
    >> http://tinyurl.com/mkc3c
    >>
    >> -jean
    >>
    >>
    >>> Also, I'm not going to add headers to the generated classes, such as
    >>> _Artist.java and Artist.java, since these are produced from a template
    >>> and we don't want the standard templates to have the ASF headers in
    >>> them.
    >>>
    >>> It looks like many test classes don't have headers, either, but I'll
    >>> add
    >>> it to them.
    >>>
    >>> Thanks,
    >>>
    >>> /dev/mrg
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> -----Original Message-----
    >>> From: Andrus Adamchik [mailto:andru..bjectstyle.org]
    >>> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 11:09 AM
    >>> To: cayenne-de..ncubator.apache.org
    >>> Subject: Re: NOTICE Text
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> On Jul 18, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Gentry, Michael ((Contractor)) wrote:
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>> Ooops, misread what you said originally. Thanks.
    >>>>
    >>>> I'm adding the ASF license to a few files which were missing the OS
    >>>> one,
    >>>> but everything else is looking good so far. Do you think
    >>>> org/apache/cayenne/dba/types.xml (and kin) need it, too? My gut
    >>>> feeling
    >>>> is no.
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> I don't know. I guess we can add the header as XML comment. Probably
    >>> wouldn't hurt.
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>> What about HTML files? I'm guessing no on that one, too. At
    >>>> least for now ...
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> At least not in cayenne-other/wiki-docs, as those are generated.
    >>>
    >>> Andrus
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >



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