Fwd: [jira] [Commented] (LEGAL-134) [AMBER-11][AMBER-12] patch with Newcastle University Copyright

[Antonio Sanso <as...@adobe.com>]

FYI

Antonio

P.S. Lukasz, Maciej is there anything you can do regarding

"You should not change, move, or remove the copyright statements unless you have permission to do so. And better yet, have the copyright holder do this."


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From: "Kevan Miller (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>>
Date: May 1, 2012 5:56:04 AM GMT+02:00
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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (LEGAL-134) [AMBER-11][AMBER-12] patch with Newcastle University Copyright
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Kevan Miller commented on LEGAL-134:
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The guidance you have is -- http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#headers

IMO, the code *is* usable in Apache Amber.

You should not change, move, or remove the copyright statements unless you have permission to do so. And better yet, have the copyright holder do this.

If you are unable to get the copyright holder to move/remove the copyright or get permission to do so, IMO, the code is still usable within an Apache release. I think this is also the guidance that Sam gave you earlier. Though he may not have stated in quite those terms...

[AMBER-11][AMBER-12] patch with Newcastle University Copyright
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               Key: LEGAL-134
               URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-134
           Project: Legal Discuss
        Issue Type: Question
          Reporter: Antonio Sanso

Over in AMBER-11 and AMBER-12 someone (2 project members with a signed ICLA) have contributed patch with a Newcastle University copyright.
The Amber project has been on incubator fro a while and we would like to try to graduate. In order to do it we need to solve some potential legal issue as the copyright.
The copyright looks like
/**
*       Copyright 2010 Newcastle University
*
*          http://research.ncl.ac.uk/smart/
*
* Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
* contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
* this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
* The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
* (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
* the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
*      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*/
Is this code useable in Apache Amber?
Is this copyright statement in line with Apache rules/policies ? If not are we allowed to change?
More details in [0]
[0] http://markmail.org/message/p2taqtcvnxw4o6ri

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