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Fix copyright and licensing information #53
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Thanks for reporting this. Actually intention is clear, I think. But the implementation of the ASL here should meet the formal requirements. I pushed a change to branch. @rkottmann can you please review this |
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- remove implementation instructions - add acronym KoSIT
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#53 Fix copyright and licensing information See merge request kosit/validator!35
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I'm new to this repo, so please bear with me if I'm getting something wrong.
Currently, the copyright and license header looks like this:
I think this is misleading, if not wrong:
First, there is no copyright claim at all. I suppose the "Koordinierungsstelle für IT-Standards (KoSIT)" is the copyright owner, right? Then the first line should actually have a copyright claim like this:
where 2019 is the year of inception and 2020 the year of the last edit. With no copyright claim at all however, according to US legislation (and maybe in other countries, too), this would not be copyrighted material. I'm no lawyer, though, so I maybe wrong.
Next, I think the meaning of the first sentence is that KoSIT is the actual copyright owner and licenses this material under the terms and conditions of the ASL 2, right? Then the second word, which is "to", should be replaced with "by". In the current text however, KoSIT is licensing their own work to themselves. :-)
Last, but not least, you could swap the license boiler plate with the recommended form, which you can find at the very end of this page: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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