You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.
Posted to general@jakarta.apache.org by Vincent Massol <vm...@octo.com> on 2002/01/09 00:55:08 UTC
License change for new year ?
I have 2 questions :
1/ Now that we are in 2002, do we need to change the text in all our
license files to be : "Copyright (c) 1999-2002 The Apache Software
Foundation" instead of "Copyright (c) 1999-2001 The Apache Software
Foundation" ?
2/ Some license files only have "Copyright (c) 1999 The Apache Software
Foundation" and some others have a year range as in "Copyright (c)
1999-2001 The Apache Software Foundation". Should one be preferred over
the other ? Are they both valid ?
Thanks
-Vincent
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: <ma...@jakarta.apache.org>
For additional commands, e-mail: <ma...@jakarta.apache.org>
Re: License change for new year ?
Posted by Ted Husted <hu...@apache.org>.
I think on a continuing basis, Committers should update the copyright
notice to include the current year whenever they update a source file.
This will happen most often in the early part of a year, but should
happen year-round. So, as Peter said, if you revise a source file from
1999, you should change the copyright notice in the license to read
1999, 2002. If the file was from 2001, we would change it to 2001-2002.
But I'm not sure that we need to any automatic updates of source files
that have not changed.
-Ted.
Berin Loritsch wrote:
>
> Peter Donald wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:55, Vincent Massol wrote:
> >
> >>1/ Now that we are in 2002, do we need to change the text in all our
> >>license files to be : "Copyright (c) 1999-2002 The Apache Software
> >>Foundation" instead of "Copyright (c) 1999-2001 The Apache Software
> >>Foundation" ?
> >>
> >
> > should change it to include 2002. However the start date is determined by
> > when the project actually started/was donated to Apache - so many of the
> > newer ones will be 2001-2002
> >
> >
> >>2/ Some license files only have "Copyright (c) 1999 The Apache Software
> >>Foundation" and some others have a year range as in "Copyright (c)
> >>1999-2001 The Apache Software Foundation". Should one be preferred over
> >>the other ? Are they both valid ?
> >>
> >
> > It should be the longest duration at which it has been continuously developed
> > and owned by Apache. So most projects will be one of
> >
> > 1999-2002
> > 2000-2002
> > 2001-2002
> >
> > However some projects were mothballed and if we ever restarted work on them
> > we would have to do something like
> >
> > 1999-2000,2002 (for stylebook for instance)
>
> Basically once the code is "published" in some form, (I.e. public CVS, official
>
> release, etc.) you have to have a stamp on it. Print publications have full
> dates for each release of the publication--though we shouldn't need to do that
> for our code.
>
> --
>
> "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
> deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> - Benjamin Franklin
>
> --
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <ma...@jakarta.apache.org>
> For additional commands, e-mail: <ma...@jakarta.apache.org>
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: <ma...@jakarta.apache.org>
For additional commands, e-mail: <ma...@jakarta.apache.org>
Re: License change for new year ?
Posted by Berin Loritsch <bl...@apache.org>.
Peter Donald wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:55, Vincent Massol wrote:
>
>>1/ Now that we are in 2002, do we need to change the text in all our
>>license files to be : "Copyright (c) 1999-2002 The Apache Software
>>Foundation" instead of "Copyright (c) 1999-2001 The Apache Software
>>Foundation" ?
>>
>
> should change it to include 2002. However the start date is determined by
> when the project actually started/was donated to Apache - so many of the
> newer ones will be 2001-2002
>
>
>>2/ Some license files only have "Copyright (c) 1999 The Apache Software
>>Foundation" and some others have a year range as in "Copyright (c)
>>1999-2001 The Apache Software Foundation". Should one be preferred over
>>the other ? Are they both valid ?
>>
>
> It should be the longest duration at which it has been continuously developed
> and owned by Apache. So most projects will be one of
>
> 1999-2002
> 2000-2002
> 2001-2002
>
> However some projects were mothballed and if we ever restarted work on them
> we would have to do something like
>
> 1999-2000,2002 (for stylebook for instance)
Basically once the code is "published" in some form, (I.e. public CVS, official
release, etc.) you have to have a stamp on it. Print publications have full
dates for each release of the publication--though we shouldn't need to do that
for our code.
--
"They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: <ma...@jakarta.apache.org>
For additional commands, e-mail: <ma...@jakarta.apache.org>
Re: License change for new year ?
Posted by Peter Donald <pe...@apache.org>.
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:55, Vincent Massol wrote:
> 1/ Now that we are in 2002, do we need to change the text in all our
> license files to be : "Copyright (c) 1999-2002 The Apache Software
> Foundation" instead of "Copyright (c) 1999-2001 The Apache Software
> Foundation" ?
should change it to include 2002. However the start date is determined by
when the project actually started/was donated to Apache - so many of the
newer ones will be 2001-2002
> 2/ Some license files only have "Copyright (c) 1999 The Apache Software
> Foundation" and some others have a year range as in "Copyright (c)
> 1999-2001 The Apache Software Foundation". Should one be preferred over
> the other ? Are they both valid ?
It should be the longest duration at which it has been continuously developed
and owned by Apache. So most projects will be one of
1999-2002
2000-2002
2001-2002
However some projects were mothballed and if we ever restarted work on them
we would have to do something like
1999-2000,2002 (for stylebook for instance)
--
Cheers,
Pete
------------------------------------------------
"No. Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try."
-- Yoda
------------------------------------------------
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: <ma...@jakarta.apache.org>
For additional commands, e-mail: <ma...@jakarta.apache.org>
Re: License change for new year ?
Posted by Conor MacNeill <co...@cortexebusiness.com.au>.
Vincent Massol wrote:
> I have 2 questions :
>
> 1/ Now that we are in 2002, do we need to change the text in all our
> license files to be : "Copyright (c) 1999-2002 The Apache Software
> Foundation" instead of "Copyright (c) 1999-2001 The Apache Software
> Foundation" ?
>
> 2/ Some license files only have "Copyright (c) 1999 The Apache Software
> Foundation" and some others have a year range as in "Copyright (c)
> 1999-2001 The Apache Software Foundation". Should one be preferred over
> the other ? Are they both valid ?
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
Vincent,
I don't know the official Apache or Jakarta policies, if there are any.
I have tried to follow something I read in the Taligent guide to
designing programs (A C++ era coding convention/design guide book),
where it states
"If you significantly modify a file, list the year of the modification.
The years correspond to publication, not creation, dates. Separate
consecutive years with a dash, but off years with a comma
// Copyright (c) 1992, 1994-1996 ...."
Seems a reasonable approach.
Conor
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: <ma...@jakarta.apache.org>
For additional commands, e-mail: <ma...@jakarta.apache.org>