ASF Source Header and Copyright Notice Policy

• Key: STR-2968
• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Blocker
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Niall Pemberton
• Component/s: Core, Example Applications, Tag Libraries EL (Dormant), Extras, JSF Integration (Dormant), Scripting, Tag Libraries, Tiles 1 Plugin, Website, Build
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.5
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.6

Description

All the ASF License headers in the source files need to be updated to remove the copyright notice as per the new policy:

    http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html

Might also be a good idea to run Robert Burrell Donkin's "RAT" (release audit tool) on Struts, since we were singled out on the incubator list recently
   http://tinyurl.com/yf3pem
   http://code.google.com/p/arat/

Comments

[Niall Pemberton]

Wendy pointed out that this is a blocker, since we shouldn't do another release without complying with the policy. Also in the FAQ page in the policy doc, theres script(s) to do this - for those who know/use python

[James Mitchell]

I ran rat against a clean checkout...

http://people.apache.org/~jmitchell/rat/

[Niall Pemberton]

Fixed by Ted under WW-1488