Re: No ICLA for some authors in Sun's JAXP 1.3 donation

Neeraj Bajaj wrote:

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> Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
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>> On Apr 12, 2005, at 10:20 PM, Jeff Suttor wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 07:33 -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
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>>>> What I would do is just remove the names from the code, and in the
>>>> commit message, note that you are removing as they are internal Sun
>>>> committers, that their work was done at Sun before the contribution 
>>>> was
>>>> made, and you are removing them to eliminate the confusion that arose.
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>>> I would prefer that my @author stay intact.
>>> I have just sent in an ICLA.
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>> It doesn't matter for this case - the existence of the author tags 
>> reflects work that happened before the software was donated to 
>> Apache, so from a legal standpoint, it's moot.  I know this may come 
>> across as harsh, and I don't mean to be - 
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IANAL, So i would leave the legalities to you :-) Is it fine author to 
be listed as a comment in the file , without the tag ?

- Neeraj

>> the use of author tags is a community issue (and a generally 
>> contentious one!)  and one that the ASF board has recommended 
>> against.  However it is up to the individual project to decide how 
>> author tags are handled.
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> My opinion would be not to remove the author tag. Author tag shows the 
> contribution of a person and is a good contact point in case any one 
> needs to clarifiy certain behavior. Actually it would be good if Jeff 
> can be made a committer as part of the code grant because of his 
> contribution in so many files. His becoming committer  would also be 
> good for the ASF project and the community.
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> - Neeraj
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>> Personally, I'd find it utterly baffling to find an author tag in the 
>> file with no related commit by that author.  An alternative to just 
>> erasing them, in order to preserve that information  in some way, 
>> would be to move it to the NOTICE file for the project?
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>> An alternative also is to contribute to the project and become a 
>> committer.  you do have the paperwork done :)
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