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Posted to general@incubator.apache.org by PJ Fanning <fa...@apache.org> on 2022/10/24 21:02:06 UTC

Apache license in source files (pekko)

Thanks everyone for supporting Pekko's application to join the Incubator.

I have a question about the licenses that appear in the source files.

Do we need to replace the Lightbend copyright at the top of the Pekko source files [1] with the generic Apache license [2]? Or would we use an Apache license that acknowledges the Lightbend copyright (ending in 2022)?

The LICENSE and NOTICE files that we include in git and in the release artifacts will include an acknowledgment of the Lightbend copyright. I've just never seen any ASF source files that have such a copyright.

Any guidance will be appreciated.

Regards,
PJ

[1] https://github.com/mdedetrich/akka-apache/blob/6680c47dcc2305906a44d7794081682211d7ee0b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/AbstractActor.scala
[2] https://github.com/apache/poi/blob/trunk/poi/src/main/java/org/apache/poi/POIDocument.java

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Re: Apache license in source files (pekko)

Posted by PJ Fanning <fa...@apache.org>.

Thanks Justin and Roman.

We'll leave the Lightbend licenses alone.

If there are significant modifications to an existing file, we will adjust the license comment to be an Apache license but also ackoweldge the pre-existing Lightbend license. 

Any new files will just get a standard Apache license.

On 2022/10/25 10:18:10 Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 8:39 AM Justin Mclean <ju...@classsoftware.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would perhaps change the headers to be the 3rd party ASF header with the copyright line to make it clear each file is under the Apache license.
> 
> What Justin said ;-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Roman.
> 
> P.S. Of course, all the new files we start creating should have a
> standard ASF header.
> 
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Re: Apache license in source files (pekko)

Posted by Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org>.

On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 8:39 AM Justin Mclean <ju...@classsoftware.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would perhaps change the headers to be the 3rd party ASF header with the copyright line to make it clear each file is under the Apache license.

What Justin said ;-)

Thanks,
Roman.

P.S. Of course, all the new files we start creating should have a
standard ASF header.

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Re: Apache license in source files (pekko)

Posted by Justin Mclean <ju...@classsoftware.com>.

Hi,

I would perhaps change the headers to be the 3rd party ASF header with the copyright line to make it clear each file is under the Apache license.

Kind Regards,
Justin
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Re: Apache license in source files (pekko)

Posted by Justin Mclean <ju...@classsoftware.com>.

Hi,

> Do we need to replace the Lightbend copyright at the top of the Pekko source files [1] with the generic Apache license [2]?

Have Lightbend given you permission to change the headers? I’m assuming not, so they should stay as they are.

Treatment of 3rd party code suggests that you may want to consider changing the header once major modification have been made. [1]

Kind Regards,
Justin

1. https://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#3party



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