Re: ASF Source Header documentation pages disagree

[sebb <se...@gmail.com>]

Ping?

On 20/12/06, Cliff Schmidt <cl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Sebb,
>
> This is my fault.  I've left things in this confused state for too
> long.  I'll fix this up next week -- really!  Everyone gets to
> spam/harass me if I don't have it mostly done by the new year.
>
> More specific answers below.  Thanks for taking the time to point out
> these inconsistencies.
>
> Cliff
>
> On 12/20/06, sebb <se...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just noticed some inconsistencies in the license documentation on the
> > web-site...
> >
> > The new rules for applying licences to source files are at:
> >
> > [1] http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html
>
> This doc is the normative one right now, although I need to move the
> doc to /dev and put in a redirect .
>
> > However, there are still some rules at:
> >
> > [2] http://www.apache.org/dev/apply-license.html
>
> Much of this is redundant or conflicting with [1], but there is still
> some good stuff here that needs to not get lost (e.g. copying or
> referencing third-party licenses in the LICENSE file).
>
> >
> > and
> >
> > [3] http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html#apply
>
> This is still good advice to any non-ASF projects that want to use the
> Apache License.  It might be confusing that ASF projects do something
> a little different (due to the collective nature of our works), but it
> would be a bit of a pain to change the language at all -- as an
> appendix to the license, it's become considered part of what v2.0 is.
> See http://opensource.org/licenses/apache2.0.php.
>
> > which disagree with [1] - in particular with regard to the Copyright
> > sentence in the boilerplate for source files.
> >
> > Also:
> >
> > [4] http://www.apache.org/licenses/ refers to [2] - it should
> > presumably refer to [1]
> >
> > [2] could probably be deleted ?
>
> [4] definitely needs at least a minor update.  See my note about [2] above.
>

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