Re: [VOTE] Release 1.2.0-incubating RC3 of Apache Texera (Incubating)

Hi Xuan,

Thanks for looking into this, but the reasoning doesn't hold, and I'd =
ask you to fix the NOTICE file rather than keep the current wording.

What other projects have in their NOTICE files is not precedent. ASF =
policy is documented in the ASF Source Header and Copyright Notice =
Policy [1], not in the wording of other projects' repositories. If other =
projects use "and onwards", that means those projects have also deviated =
from the documented format, and nobody has corrected it yet. An =
uncorrected mistake elsewhere doesn't make the same mistake acceptable =
here; it's a reason to raise the issue with those projects, not to copy =
it.

The documented format is a plain year range: "Copyright [yyyy]-[yyyy] =
The Apache Software Foundation", covering the actual years of the ASF's =
contributions. "And onwards" also has no legal meaning, as a copyright =
notice records years of publication and can't claim years that haven't =
happened or works that don't yet exist.

Thanks,
Justin

[1] https://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#notice=