Fwd: Re: pivot copyrights/?/

[Greg Brown <gk...@mac.com>]

Hi all,

I posted this to legal-discuss@apache.org last week, but I thought I would re-post here in case anyone had any insight. Given that VMware has signed a software grant for the Pivot codebase, is the project obligated to retain a VMware copyright notice in the source code headers, or is mention in the notice file sufficient?

Thanks,
Greg

>From: "Greg Brown" <gk...@mac.com>
>To: <le...@apache.org>
>Date: March 20, 2009 09:05:43 AM EDT
>Subject: Re: pivot copyrights/?/
>
>Hello,
>
>A question recently came up on the pivot-dev mailing list about copyright notices. One of the project mentors suggested that, if the code was provided via a software grant, the original copyright notice should be replaced with the standard Apache header; see below. Is this correct?
>
>Thanks,
>Greg Brown
>Pivot Project Lead
>
>On Friday, March 20, 2009, at 08:06AM, "Martijn Dashorst" <ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>Did the software come in through a grant?
>>
>>I'm pretty sure the copyright notice should be removed, and replaced
>>with the boilerplate Apache license header, and add VMWare in the
>>notice file.
>>
>>Though you might want to contact legal-discuss@ before taking any action.
>>
>>Martijn
>>
>>On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Greg Brown <gk...@mac.com> wrote:
>>> Todd and I work for VMware, so they hold a copyright on the code.
>>>
>>> On Thursday, March 19, 2009, at 10:47AM, "John Pritchard" <jd...@syntelos.com> wrote:
>>>>um.. did i read in your blog on java.net that you wrote pivot from
>>>>scratch.?. so how does VMware, Inc enter ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Can you elaborate on this? That's standard VMware boilerplate.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> > someone needs to fix those odd "Copyright VMware, Inc" statements..
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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