Details
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Task
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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Graduating
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Graduating, 3.0, 2.9
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Description
To quote ASF Board resolution from May 2004: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jakarta-jmeter-dev/200402.mbox/%3C4039F65E.7020406@atg.com%3E
- In conjunction with the the discussion about relicensing and some
copyright issues, the Board is establishing an official policy in this
area:
- each and every file must have exactly one Copyright line, specifying
The Apache Software Foundation. additional individual or corporate
copyrights are not allowed.(of course, binary files or certain restrictively formatted files
cannot include the copyright and license, but the copyright/license
header should be in everything possible)
- for contributions of entire files/packages, it is permissible to
include a section saying something along the lines of "originally
written by ...". this text should occur after the copyright and
license header.
- author tags are officially discouraged. these create difficulties in
establishing the proper ownership and the protection of our
committers. there are other social issues dealing with collaborative
development, but the Board is concerned about the legal ramifications
around the use of author tags
- it is quite acceptable and encouraged to recognize developers' efforts
in a CHANGES file, or some other descriptive file which is associated
with the overall PMC or release rather than individual files.