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Re: Copyright issues (was Re: svn commit: rev 3740 - in clients/rapidsvn/trunk/src: . tests/svncpp svncpp)

From: Alexander Mueller <Alexander.Mueller_at_littleblue.de>
Date: 2002-11-12 11:02:39 CET

B. W. Fitzpatrick wrote:
> xela@tigris.org writes:
>
>>Author: xela
>>Date: 2002-11-11 17:54:58 -0600 (Mon, 11 Nov 2002)
>>New Revision: 3740
>>
>>Modified:
>> clients/rapidsvn/trunk/src/action_thread.cpp
>
>
> <snip>
>
>> clients/rapidsvn/trunk/src/version.h
>>Log:
>>Added license information to all cpp and h files.
>
>
>>Modified: clients/rapidsvn/trunk/src/rapidsvn_frame.cpp
>>=============================================================================
>>=
>>--- clients/rapidsvn/trunk/src/rapidsvn_frame.cpp (original)
>>+++ clients/rapidsvn/trunk/src/rapidsvn_frame.cpp Mon Nov 11
17:55:07 200
>>2
>>@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
>>+/*
>>+ *
====================================================================
>>+ * Copyright (c) 2000 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights
>>+ * reserved.
>>+ *
>>+ * This software is licensed as described in the file LICENSE.txt,
>>+ * which you should have received as part of this distribution.
>>+ *
>>+ * This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many
>>+ * individuals. For exact contribution history, see the revision
>>+ * history and logs, available at http://rapidsvn.tigris.org/.
>>+ *
====================================================================
>>+ */
>
>
> <snip>
>
> Um, you can't just blanket assign copyright of an entire project to
> the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) without a formal (that is,
> written) software grant. You can use an Apache-style license if you
> wish, or even assign copyright to CollabNet just like Subversion
> itself, but if the ASF assumes the copyright, that implies ownership,
> oversight, and responsibility on behalf of the ASF, and that's not the
> case here.
>
> Also, the date should be 2000-2002.
>
> -Fitz
>
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>

Thats true. But who owns it? Collabnet doesnt. I dont. Is there a
abstract thing like the RapidSvn foundation?

Xela

PS: any suggestions on this topic is very much appreciated

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