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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 06:32:01 -0400
From: Rodent of Unusual Size <Ken.Coar@Golux.Com>
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Subject: Re: [VOTE] Change Copyright notice to ASF
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Daniel John Debrunner wrote:
> 
> For this specific vote, I'm still not sure if a vote is the correct
> approach. If we need to retain copyright notices then option 2) is the
> only choice. I think "retain" could only mean leave as-is, not 'keep a
> modified version'. It may be more a legal decision than a community one.

no, a vote isn't the way to go.  since getting the files cleaned
up is one of the graduation criteria, it would essentially be a vote
on whether to ever graduate or not. :-)

see the bottom of http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt
note that the 'fill in the copyright owner' aspect is directed to
non-apache groups that are using the licence to protect *their* code,
not to apache's own code.

the copyright notice in the files needs to change to:

   Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation

   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
   You may obtain a copy of the License at

       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
   limitations under the License.

information about ibm's involvement needs to go into a NOTICE file; see
http://www.apache.org/licenses/example-NOTICE.txt for an example.

both a LICENCE and a NOTICE file should be at the top level of the
source code repository, *and* in any binary distributions.
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