Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?
Benson Margulies <[email protected]> Thu, 20 Aug 2015 10:23:50 -0400
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On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Jim Jagielski <jim-wnqjnsUU/[email protected]> wrote: > Coming in late. > > A snapshot is not a release. Licenses "kick in" at distribution/ > release. Are you sure? When you have a public source control repo, with a LICENSE file at the top, I would think that this counts as a legal 'publication' under the terms of the license. if not, just what is the legal status of source code snipped from our repositories? > > There is also a trademark issue as well... only the ASF > can declare something as a release. > >> On Aug 6, 2015, at 8:50 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> while answering a question on release policies and ALv2 >> I've suddenly realized that I really don't know what is the >> legal basis for enforcing release policies we've got >> documented over here: >> http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html >> >> For example, what would be the legal basis for stopping >> a 3d party from releasing a snapshot of ASF's project >> source tree and claim it to be a release X.Y.Z of said >> project? >> >> Thanks, >> Roman. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe-d1GL8uUpDdXTxqt0kkDzDmD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >