Re: Licensing

Ryan Hoegg <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:55:26 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.spice.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
peter-4lf8KW9E9MLMqX/[email protected] wrote:

>Hi,
>
>From: "Ryan Hoegg" <[email protected]>
>  
>
>>Just noticed that all the jervlet stuff still has the Apache license on
>>each source file.  I don't think we mean to be assigning copyright for
>>it to ASF?
>>    
>>
>
>I haven't looked at specifics but I suspect that most if not all of the
>initial codebase needs to retain an aknowledgement/license.
>
>In this case I would use a license like
>
> /*
>  * Copyright (C) The Spice Group. All rights reserved.
>  *
>  * This software is published under the terms of the Spice
>  * Software License version 1.1, a copy of which has been included
>  * with this distribution in the LICENSE.txt file.
>  *
>  * This product includes software developed by the
>  * Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/)
>  * under the license http://www.apache.org/LICENSE
>  */
>
>However any new file should not be licensed to Apache.
>
>  
>
>>Should I go ahead and update all the source files in jervlet?
>>    
>>
>
>Sounds like an idea but I would wait to see what others say who know the
>codebase better ;)
>
>  
>
Sounds good.  Especially because some of the classes have been renamed.  
I suppose it gets complex if one splits a class into two or something, 
so someone who knows where the code all came from should help for sure.

--
Ryan Hoegg
ISIS Networks
http://www.isisnetworks.net



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