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Posted to general@jakarta.apache.org by Andrus Adamchik <an...@objectstyle.org> on 2002/02/25 23:41:07 UTC
Recasting Apache license
License question.
I am going to recast standard Apache license to change the definitions
of copyright holders to our project team. Now, the problem is that the
project site, objectstyle.org , is not an officially registered
foundation like Apache. Can it be a copyright holder? Is this legally
binding to anyone? I can't just put my name on it, since it was a
collaborative work of a group of developers.
Any suggestions how to handle situations like that?
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Re: Recasting Apache license
Posted by "Andrew C. Oliver" <ac...@apache.org>.
We did this originally for POI and used Marc/me and the POI
contributers. I just got each to agree that it could be transferred to
ASF before accepting donations. (because POI was originally intended to
all be part of cocoon but that is a really long boring story)... I'm
not sure of all of the legality but it is what every APL project on
sourceforge does. ("why invent when you can steal" - paraphrase of M$)
-Andy
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 17:41, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
> License question.
>
> I am going to recast standard Apache license to change the definitions
> of copyright holders to our project team. Now, the problem is that the
> project site, objectstyle.org , is not an officially registered
> foundation like Apache. Can it be a copyright holder? Is this legally
> binding to anyone? I can't just put my name on it, since it was a
> collaborative work of a group of developers.
>
> Any suggestions how to handle situations like that?
>
>
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> - Andrei (a.k.a. Andrus) Adamchik
> http://objectstyle.org
> list email: andrus-jk at objectstyle dot org
> personal email: andrus at objectstyle dot org
>
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Re: Recasting Apache license
Posted by Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>.
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Andrus Adamchik <an...@objectstyle.org>
wrote:
> I am going to recast standard Apache license to change the
> definitions of copyright holders to our project team. Now, the
> problem is that the project site, objectstyle.org , is not an
> officially registered foundation like Apache.
I think the original license - before the Apache Software Foundation
has been founded - said copyright by "The Apache Group", even though
there hasn't been a legal entity of that name. Not sure wether this
has been legaly binding.
Isn't this waybackmachine.org site cool? See www.apache.org from
1996: <http://web.archive.org/web/19961028114216/www.apache.org/>
The license back then:
<http://web.archive.org/web/19961028122416/www.apache.org/docs/LICENSE>
Quite different from today's 8-)
Stefan
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