Re: [Clirr-devel] Re: Change Clirr's License to ASL2

[<lak...@t-...>]

Torsten Curdt wrote:

> I would still hold the copyright, just like today, and for the same  
> reason: I don't want to hunt down every contributor if there should  
> ever be a third version of the ASL.
>
> IANAL but AFAIK assigning copyright to other people is not valid in  
> all countries.


So I have to figure out copyright law in each and every country on the 
planet? Sounds like lots of fun :-/

>
> So be careful with that assumption. How it works in Apache is that  
> committers have
> to sign a CLA
>
>  http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt
>
> So the committers still hold the copyright but grant the ASF  
> basically the right to
> do with the code whatever they want. I think that's pretty much what  
> you are after.
>

Oh my, have I ever mentioned that I simply hate spending my time with 
all this licensing stuff?

Appearantly Apache doesn't do that consistently either. Java source 
files in geronimo, tomcat and tapestry all have

/ * Copyright 2003-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
/

in their header, while httpd code has

//* Copyright 1999-2005 The Apache Software Foundation or its licensors, as applicable.
/


> In case you are after a clarification ...we have a legal-discuss  
> mailing list at
> Apache that could probably could give you a more correct(?) answer.
>

I read through their archives, and it seems like you might have a point. 
Then again, there is another email there that says the httpd version in 
obsolete, which implies that the ASF is the copyright owner (?). Sigh - 
I guess I'll have to ask the experts...

Lars