[LEGAL-295] Merge others codes having same license but different copyrights

• Type: Question
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Information Provided
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Yasser Zamani
• Created: 21/Mar/17 09:15
• Updated: 22/Apr/17 01:44
• Resolved: 22/Apr/17 01:44

Description

As an ASF contributor, in one of my pull requests, I copied and merged other ones codes to an existing ASF project. Both are under same license, Apache License V2, but the other one code has the below copyright at his file header:

 * Copyright 2002-2014 the original author or authors.

and existing ASF project has:

 * Copyright 2002-2006,2009 The Apache Software Foundation.

While the other one code has defined several `@author` tags above his class definition (rather than any other place e.g. methods and etc) and while our existing ASF project does not accept `@author` tag:

1. Is it legal to not include `@author` tags and the copyright statement?
2. If no, how to handle this?

Thanks in advance!