Re: Copyright lines, acknowledgement WAS: Re: svn commit: rev 6263 - incubator/spamassassin/trunk/spamc

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

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Sander Striker writes:
>The ASF tradition is not to do it.

BTW, this means we'll have to take out the copyright lines from the
current codebase -- for one thing, the personal liability issue is
something most contributors probably had *not* considered, and
would not be something I'd be happy exposing people to.

(And the social side-effects noted are worth avoiding, too.)

I think the appropriate thing to do is to bring credits.html into the
distro as a CREDITS file, and maintain credit there, and use just
Apache (c) lines.

- --j.
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Re: Copyright lines, acknowledgement WAS: Re: svn commit: rev 6263 - incubator/spamassassin/trunk/spamc

["Malte S. Stretz" <ms...@gmx.net>]

On Thursday 29 January 2004 01:16 CET Justin Mason wrote:
> Sander Striker writes:
> >The ASF tradition is not to do it.
>
> BTW, this means we'll have to take out the copyright lines from the
> current codebase -- for one thing, the personal liability issue is
> something most contributors probably had *not* considered, and
> would not be something I'd be happy exposing people to.
>
> (And the social side-effects noted are worth avoiding, too.)
>
> I think the appropriate thing to do is to bring credits.html into the
> distro as a CREDITS file, and maintain credit there, and use just
> Apache (c) lines.

Seems like I'm overruled :) Go for it.

Cheers,
Malte

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