Re: AW: AW: [Tm4j-developers] Source code license text

[<ka...@te...>]

Hi Elmar,

I agree the license text should be in the distributions (both binary and
source distributions). I just wondered whether to make a reference to it
from the source code headers or just to reference the license file on the
website. I'm in two minds about it - on the one hand having one place
referenced in all the source files means that there should be no problem
about inconsistencies between the file on the site and the file in a
distribution. On the other hand the license file will be in the
distribution and it would be sensible to reference it there...

I think it is something we can spend a lot of time worrying about so I
propose this slightly modified version of your proposed text - just changed
because LICENSE.txt is actually in the root directory of the whole distro,
not at the root of the source tree (to me the "root of the source tree" is
the src directory).

 /*
  Copyright (c) 2000-2004 The TM4J Project. All rights reserved.
 
  This software is licensed under a modified version of 
  the  Apache Software License. The full license text can 
  be found in the file LICENSE.txt in the root directory 
  of the distribution or at http://tm4j.org/LICENSE.txt 
 */

Hows that ?

Cheers,

Kal
Elmar_Seestädt writes:

> Hi Kal,
> 
> Another point from me. The License text should be included in the source
> distribution as a text file as well. Maybe in the root directory of the
> sources.
> And there should be a reference to this file in the header:
> 
> /*
>   Copyright (c) 2000-2004 The TM4J Project. All rights reserved.
>  
>   This software is licensed under a modified version of 
>   the  Apache Software License. The full license text can 
>   be found in the file LICENSE.txt in the root directory 
>   of the source tree or at
>   http://tm4j.org/LICENSE.txt 
> */
> 
> > 
> > I think its better just to point to one place (the TM4J.org 
> > website) and to say "modified version" so that people cannot 
> > claim that we have passed the IP to the Apache Software Foundation!
> > 
> 
> That´s a good idea people tend to get weird ideas.
> 
> Elmar
> 
> 
> 
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