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

[Christoph F. <cf...@fo...>]

Hi 


I would opt for a version, that mentions only ONE occurrence. But maybe
the local one:

/*
 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.
*/

I wonder what would happen to the resources that reference the license
on tm4j.org if we change the file tm4j.org/LICENSE.txt somewhere in the
future.

All theese resources would change their license too, aren't they? A kind
of floating license. This sounds a bit strange to me. The license of a
particular distribution, should be fixed. Or do I miss something?

bye 
c


Am Do, den 26.02.2004 schrieb ka...@te... um 11:58:
> 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_Seestdt 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!
> > > 
> > 
> > Thats a good idea people tend to get weird ideas.
> > 
> > Elmar
> > 
> > 
> > 
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