Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> Fri, 21 Aug 2015 11:51:07 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.commons.general,gmane.comp.apache.community.devel
Message-ID <92816BCE-326F-4F51-A8A9-60DA6321F066__15696.5107111775$1440172974$gmane$org@jaguNET.com>
> On Aug 20, 2015, at 11:19 PM, William A Rowe Jr <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Jim Jagielski <jim-wnqjnsUU/[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> A snapshot is not a release. Licenses "kick in" at distribution/
>> release.
>> 
> 
> Lets just imagine if Jim, VP Legal is actually correct in his
> interpretation, and that there are no AL 2.0 licenses applicable to our
> source code repositories, svn or git.
> 

I did NOT SAY that... holy moley. I said that licenses kick in
at a release, but I not not say that they don't kick-in at
other times; also, a release is guaranteed to be under ALv2
(it is our "work") and there is no guarantee on said snapshot,
depending on how it is created.