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 -- Ceki http://twitter.com/#!/ceki