[logback-dev] Copyright headers

[ceki]

Hello Christian, Joern, Les, Tomasz, Tony, as well all future
contributors,

I am super thrilled to see the logback-extensions project taking off
with contribution flowing in. It makes it all the more important to
tackle legal issues as early as possible in order to as to avoid
ill-will in the future. No one likes to see the rules change in
mid-flight.

My apologies for not clarifying this before. As you are probably
aware, the CLA [1] assigns copyright of your contributors to QOS.ch
(see section 2). Thus, it makes sense to state QOS.ch as the copyright
holder and not each individual contributor. To be blunt, QOS.ch cannot
release software for which it does not hold copyright. Of course, the
various @author tags and commit history reveal the actual authors,
pursuant the authors' moral rights [2].

More concretely, the headers in [3, 4, 5] need to change

  from

  * Copyright 2012 Tomasz Nurkiewicz, Christian Trutz, et. al.
  * Copyright 2012 Ceki Gulcu, Les Hazlewood, et. al.
  * Copyright 2012 Ceki Gulcu, Anthony Trinh, et. al.

to

  * Copyright (C) 2012, QOS.ch. All rights reserved.

The Apache License is OK for the moment although we should one day
settle for either Apache or LGPL+EPL for *both* logback and
logback-extensions. Having two separate licenses for two closely
related projects is a little incoherent.

Please let me know if you agree or oppose this change. All comments
are most welcome.

[1] http://logback.qos.ch/cla.txt
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights_(copyright_law)
[3] http://bit.ly/KyxC3E
[4] http://bit.ly/MMIINk
[5] http://bit.ly/Lf2DJh

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