Re: todo list

Niclas Hedhman wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 March 2003 21:53, Leo Simons wrote:
> 
>>Peter Donald wrote:
>>
>>>So if it was created in 2000 and edited in all years since it would be
>>>2000-2003, if it was edited in 2000 and again this year it would be
>>>2000,2003 or various other combinations (ie 2000-2001,2003).
>>
>>We talked about this on the PMC list recently (or was it here?). The
>>resolution was that it is not terribly important from a legal POV to
>>update this copyright information very exactly. If something is marked
>>as copyrighted in 2000, it will remain copyrighted for the next 50 years
>>or so (forgot the exact number); not renewing the copyright claim simply
>>means that after that time the copyright becomes non-enforcable.
> 
> 
> Maybe I'm too frivolous on this, and missing something truely important.
> 
> What happens in 2050, when Apache looses the Copyright??

Apache looses copyright of the stuff that hasn't been touched in 50 
years. I think I would love to see software that is 50 years old just die!

> It becomes FREE, freer than ASL !!  ??

Yes. It's called 'public domain' and it's different.

> Today I CAN take the code and do something else with it, without consulting 
> Apache, I can spawn it, make it commercial, practically anything except 
> leveraging on the Apache name. 
> What more can I do IF ASF didn't have copyright on a particular file?

Call it RedHat Apache.

Stefano.