Software grant license questions and process

[Karl Wright <kw...@metacarta.com>]

Hi all,

As part of the software grant, we are today peeling out all MetaCarta license text from the source code.  This leads to a couple 
of questions.

(1) Grant previously indicated that we should replace the MetaCarta license text with Apache license text.  I need to confirm 
that this would be Apache 2.0 license text, to be very specific.
(2) There are a few places in the code (e.g. inside a SharePoint assembly) where a copyright string is also required, but are 
presumably presented to an end user under some conditions.  Does Apache have a standard string to use in these situations?

And finally, it seems to me that as new issues come up, a good way forward might be to simply note the issue in JIRA as a 
ticket, rather than trying to address everything before the grant actually takes place.  Comments?

Thanks,
Karl

Re: Software grant license questions and process

[Shalin Shekhar Mangar <sh...@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Karl Wright <kw...@metacarta.com> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> As part of the software grant, we are today peeling out all MetaCarta
> license text from the source code.  This leads to a couple of questions.
>
> (1) Grant previously indicated that we should replace the MetaCarta license
> text with Apache license text.  I need to confirm that this would be Apache
> 2.0 license text, to be very specific.
>

Yes.


> (2) There are a few places in the code (e.g. inside a SharePoint assembly)
> where a copyright string is also required, but are presumably presented to
> an end user under some conditions.  Does Apache have a standard string to
> use in these situations?
>
>
I'm not an authority on packaging issues but I don't see why that would be
any different than the copyright text in any Apache project's NOTICE.txt

For example, Solr has "Copyright 2006-2008 The Apache Software Foundation"
in the NOTICE.txt


> And finally, it seems to me that as new issues come up, a good way forward
> might be to simply note the issue in JIRA as a ticket, rather than trying to
> address everything before the grant actually takes place.  Comments?
>
>
+1

That would just delay the grant and keep us from hacking away :)

-- 
Regards,
Shalin Shekhar Mangar.