Title: Jakarta Commons CSV Intellectual Property (IP) Clearance Status

Implementation of a CSV (Comma Separated Values) parser in Java.

  • Which PMC will be responsible for the code: Jakarta

  • Into which existing project/module: Jakarta Commons

  • Officer or member managing donation: Henri Yandell (bayard@apache.org)

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MD5 sum for donated software: aaa5ffe2c1413ed1ece266663a4764f8 (OpenSSL 0.9.7d).

Copyright

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2005-12-12Check and make sure that the papers that transfer rights to the ASF been received. It is only necessary to transfer rights for the package, the core code, and any new code produced by the project.
2005-12-16Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been updated to reflect the new ASF copyright.

Identify name recorded for software grant:

Netcetera AG / Joachim Hagger, CTO "CSV parsing and printing software including test and build files (all delivered as source code). The file contributed is found at: ftp:ftp.netcetera.ch/pub/csvparser.jar Dated 2005-06-05, 10:42:00, size 42KB"

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