[seam-dev] Seam 3 Copyright Header

[Pete Muir]

On 7 Apr 2010, at 21:25, Ken Finnigan wrote:

> So that means the second option from Dan below.

Not quite, the copyright assignment is wrong (JBoss by Red Hat, Inc. is not a legal entity so cannot have copyright assigned to it). Further, Red Hat have asked us to change the copyright from "Red Hat Middleware LLC" to "Red Hat, Inc." Anyway, I've updated the canonical source for Seam licensing

http://seamframework.org/Community/SeamLicensing

> 
> Is the plan to add the header exactly as it was in Seam 2 or does it need any rewording first?
> 
> 
> On 07/04/2010 11:53, Pete Muir wrote:
>> The license for Seam 3 is LGPL 2.1.
>> 
>> On 22 Mar 2010, at 20:31, Dan Allen wrote:
>> 
>>   
>>> This is of course going to come down to the license we choose for Seam 3. If we follow the lead of Weld, Weld extensions and Arquillian, we would choose ASL:
>>> 
>>> /*
>>>  * JBoss, Community-driven Open Source Middleware
>>>  * Copyright 2010, JBoss by Red Hat, Inc., and individual contributors
>>>  * by the @authors tag. See the copyright.txt in the distribution for a
>>>  * full listing of individual contributors.
>>>  *
>>>  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
>>>  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
>>>  * You may obtain a copy of the License at
>>>  * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
>>>  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
>>>  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
>>>  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
>>>  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
>>>  * limitations under the License.
>>>  */
>>> 
>>> Or stick with the Seam 2 license, LGPL:
>>> 
>>> /*
>>>  * JBoss, Community-driven Open Source Middleware
>>>  * Copyright 2010, JBoss by Red Hat, Inc., and individual contributors
>>>  * by the @authors tag. See the copyright.txt in the distribution for a
>>>  * full listing of individual contributors.
>>>  *
>>>  * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
>>>  * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
>>>  * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of
>>>  * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
>>>  *
>>>  * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>>>  * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>>>  * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
>>>  * Lesser General Public License for more details.
>>>  *
>>>  * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
>>>  * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free
>>>  * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
>>>  * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org.
>>>  */
>>> 
>>> I suppose we could also consider a dual-license. And it would be best to start a new thread for that so that the subject is correct.
>>> 
>>> -Dan
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Lincoln Baxter, III<lincolnbaxter at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> What is the preferred Copyright Header when developing Seam 3 modules?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
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