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a derivative work, and therefore it must obey the license terms of the
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Example - Derivative Work Copyright Notices
Here is an example of the copyright notices for a derivative work. This example was taken from a source file in Apache Ant.
/* * Copyright 2003-2004 The Apache Software Foundation * * 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. * */ /* * This code is based on code Copyright (c) 2002, Landmark Graphics * Corp that has been kindly donated to the Apache Software * Foundation. */