cloudstark/quarkus-zalando-problem-extension

Clarify license

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SchulteMarkus commented

This project is licensed under the Apache license 2.0, see LICENSE.
Though, in some files there is

/*
 *    Copyright 2020 SMB GmbH
 *
 *    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

I am pretty sure a project under the APL2.0 cannot have restrictions regarding the copyright.

If the project is under APL2.0, there should only be the LICENSE, and maybe the "license"-info in the pom.xml. I suggest to remove every other copyright/copyleft note (in special, from Java source files).

CrystalMethod commented

Thanks for you thoughts on this topic. If you look at https://github.com/cloudstark/quarkus-zalando-problem-extension/blob/master/LICENSE#L178 you can read how to apply the license. This is a common practice you can see if you look at a random repository on Github. Copyright and license are two different things. As the author (german: Urheber) of some source code I always own the copyright (german: Urheberrecht) - no matter under which license the source code get published afterwards.

How about this extended statement: "Copyright 2020 SMB GmbH and contributors."
And of course we can also add the developers tag to the pom.xml

This leads us to the next task: provide a "contribution" guideline.

SchulteMarkus commented

Thanks for the feedback, I learned something new!
My point of view: issue resolved, no change needed.

CrystalMethod commented

A final thought because I just noticed this on https://github.com/cloudstark/quarkus-zalando-problem-extension/blob/master/LICENSE On top of the license page Github has added some thoughts and usage guidelines of the selected license (Apache 2.0 in our case).