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Apache license and machine-readable copyright



Hi all!

I have a couple of packages which contain files with a copyright notice
like this:
----
/*
 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
 * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
 * The ASF licenses this file to You 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.
 */
----

I'm not sure how to describe this in a machine-readable copyright
record. I've searched around, in debian-legal archive and on the wiki,
but couldn't find anything. The notice quoted above doesn't report
anything about the copyright holder, so I'm not sure about what to put
in the Copyright: field.

So far, I've used this form:
----
Files: validator/src/org/openstreetmap/josm/plugins/validator/util/Entities.java
Copyright: Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation
License: Apache-2.0
 Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
 contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
 this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
 The ASF licenses this file to You 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.
 .
 On Debian systems the full test of the Apache 2.0 license can be found
 in the `/usr/share/common-licenses/Apache-2.0' file.
----

Is it correct? If not, what should I write?

Thanks, Giovanni.

(please, Cc: me, as I'm not subscriber to d-l)
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Giovanni Mascellani <g.mascellani@gmail.com>
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