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

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Hi Cristoph,

I understand your point. I don't think that it is likely that the license
will change, but it could happen I suppose. The only problem with referring
only to the local license is that it could be that the license file gets
moved or altered. So, if there is only one reference, referring to a copy
of the license file that we have control over makes more sense to me.

Perhaps we should put a version number or version date in the license file
URL so the URL reference could be to, for example,
http://tm4j.org/LICENSE_20040226.txt Then if we use a different license for
a future release, that could have a different URL - of course, that would
mean updating all of the file headers, but that shouldn't be a problem.

Cheers,

Kal

Christoph Froehlich writes:

> 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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