Re: Making license adjustment tools publicly available

Christopher <[email protected]> Fri, 05 Feb 2016 00:25:51 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.community.devel,gmane.comp.apache.commons.general
Message-ID <CAL5zq9aa=jDfgNO8N1mi_nfgnifWeoBHHTs=XEeDHz9vK_m0Jw@mail.gmail.com>
It might be relevant that that both of those tools appear to be licensed
under ASL 2.0, which explicitly permits redistribution (presumably outside
the private area?). I would think it confusing to have an open source
license on software which is expected to remain private, or otherwise
restricted from redistribution. As such, it seems prudent to move them to a
more appropriate area. That's my opinion, anyway.

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 7:14 PM Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> a podling recently asked me why:
>     https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/relicense/
>     https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/tools/copy2license.pl
> are only available to commiters. I see
> no reason why, but of course I'm appreciative
> of the warning here:
>     https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/README
>
> Two questions:
>    1. Is there any disagreement that making this tool publically
>     available would be a 'good thing' ?
>     2. Who should bless the svn mv if we all agree?
>
> Thanks,
> Roman.
>