On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> 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? >
I was thinking a similar thing. If a user encounters software, in any state (released, or whatever), in a repo with a LICENSE attached, it seems to me that they have every reasonable expectation that they are in their right to take actions granted by that license (modification, redistribution).
