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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 20:28:48 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Dennis E. Hamilton (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (LEGAL-114) License Header - Short Form?
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Dennis E. Hamilton commented on LEGAL-114:
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@Noah,

I should have said separable.  They are individual files both in any use that can be made of them, on the SVN, after extraction (tar, zip, any other container format), etc., and I think of them that way.  It's how they're created, operated with, viewed, etc.

I agree that the possibility of individual repurposing applies to all individual files and various collections of them in a release.

In any case, with regard to the abbreviated notice on individual files, I think this thread has converged.  I don't have any idea what Sam will declare the conclusion to be (at least for the part other than a copyright notice).

My concern about ASF copyright notices does apply to all files in a release.   I concur that this is not the forum for that topic whatever comments I have made prior to that separation being made with respect to the abbreviated-notice case.
                
> License Header - Short Form?
> ----------------------------
>
>                 Key: LEGAL-114
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-114
>             Project: Legal Discuss
>          Issue Type: Question
>            Reporter: Roger Meier
>
> Hi all
> Today the license headers within files does need ~ 15 lines within a file.
> This needs lot of space at the top of a file, probably too much if you have a small README file. 
> e.g. http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/thrift/trunk/tutorial/README?view=markup
> Is it possible to use a smaller header reflecting the license terms within a source or README file?
> Can we use something like that one or a shorter one?
> {noformat}
> /*
>  * Copyright (c) The Apache Software Foundation
>  * Licensed to the ASF under one or more contributor license agreements
>  * (see NOTICE file distributed with this work). ASF licenses this file to you
>  * under the following license http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
>  * Software distributed is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES
>  * OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
>  */
> {noformat}
> Should we mention also the License identifier (Apache-2.0) used within spdx standard?
> see http://spdx.org/licenses/
> Thanks,
> Roger

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