Re: No ICLA for some authors in Sun's JAXP 1.3 donation
Geir Magnusson Jr. <[email protected]>
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On Apr 13, 2005, at 1:52 AM, Neeraj Bajaj wrote: > > > Neeraj Bajaj wrote: > >> >> >> Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: >> >>> >>> On Apr 12, 2005, at 10:20 PM, Jeff Suttor wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 07:33 -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: >>>> >>>>> 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. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I would prefer that my @author stay intact. >>>> I have just sent in an ICLA. >>> >>> >>> >>> 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 - >> > 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 ? At this point, I don't think there's a legal issue, no matter what you do with the tag. That was taken care of in it's entirety by the CCLA from Sun which granted to the ASF a license to the codebase. geir > > - 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. >>> >> 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. >> >> - Neeraj >> >>> 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? >>> >>> An alternative also is to contribute to the project and become a >>> committer. you do have the paperwork done :) >>> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > -- Geir Magnusson Jr +1-203-665-6437 [email protected]