ASF Board Summary for February 18, 2004

["Markus M. May" <mm...@apache.org>]

Hello,
I think we did almost everything already. Except, that we should put the
license also in .properties and .xml. Or did I misunderstood the message?

+1

Another question is, if we should remove all @author tags from our sources.

+1, what do you think?

R,

Markus


 >>
 >> * We confirmed the March 1 deadline for two separate events:
 >>
 >>   - All committers must have a CLA on file by March 1. On that date, the
 >>     infrastructure team will lock out all accounts without a CLA on 
file.
 >>     If that is going to be a problem for some reason, then please 
discuss
 >>     it with your project's PMC.

Done, as far as I know.


 >>
 >>   - All releases made after March 1 must use the new Apache License 2.0.
 >>     Please note that this applies to *all* releases, even maintenance
 >>     releases where the original went out under the 1.1 license.
 >>

Done, see above.


 >> * 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.
 >>

See above.


 >>   - 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

See above.

 >>
 >>   - 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.

Okay, we should do something like this.

Re: ASF Board Summary for February 18, 2004

["Markus M. May" <mm...@gmx.net>]

Hello,
ASF would be easier, when we move to another location but I like the other
solution much better (means: +0 for @author <a
href="http://incubator.apache.org/depot">The Apache Incubator  Depot Project</a>.

R,

Markus

> Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >> Another question is, if we should remove all @author tags from our 
> >> sources.
> >>
> >> +1, what do you think?
> >
> >
> > We have to. And replace that with "The Apache Incubator Depot Project"
> >
> @author <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/depot">The Apache Incubator 
> Depot Project</a> 
> 
> Or would it be better to have the Author as The Apache Software
> Foundation"
> 
> R,
> Nick
> 

Re: ASF Board Summary for February 18, 2004

[Nick Chalko <ni...@chalko.com>]

Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:

>
>
>> Another question is, if we should remove all @author tags from our 
>> sources.
>>
>> +1, what do you think?
>
>
> We have to. And replace that with "The Apache Incubator Depot Project"
>
@author <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/depot">The Apache Incubator 
Depot Project</a> 

Or would it be better to have the Author as The Apache Software Foundation"

R,
Nick

Re: ASF Board Summary for February 18, 2004

[Nicola Ken Barozzi <ni...@apache.org>]

Markus M. May wrote:

> Hello,
> I think we did almost everything already. Except, that we should put the
> license also in .properties and .xml.

+1  I'll do that in the doc files.

> Another question is, if we should remove all @author tags from our sources.
> 
> +1, what do you think?

We have to. And replace that with "The Apache Incubator Depot Project"

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