Benoit, just to address your concerns, the way copyright works is that if you don't grant permissions, copyright is in effect in full force. So the lack of our documenting the licences, in the worst case, might mean that you do not have the permission to redistribute, and so on. (Certainly not that you have permission to do anything you like.) But of course, we've verified that from a legal perspective, these files are perfectly fine and we can distribute them in accordance with our third-party licensing policy. So the issue is theoretical only. If someone was to spot the file, and wonder what the license is, they could ask us, and we could point them to the mailing list posts, and say "it's fine, and sorry for the bug, we'll fix it in the next release."
On 11 October 2013 05:07, Benoit Chesneau <bchesn...@gmail.com> wrote: > +0 I do think we should fixe the license notices before we release. If not > we open the door to some people to use it like they want and derive work on > top of it. > > - benoit > > > On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman <d...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Dear community, > > > > I would like to release Apache CouchDB 1.5.0-rc.2, which, unlike rc1, > > includes the fauxton sources. > > > > Changes since last round: > > > > * > > > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=couchdb.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/1.5.x > > > > We encourage the whole community to download and test these release > > artefacts so that any critical issues can be resolved before the > > release is made. Everyone is free to vote on this release, so get > > stuck in! > > > > The release artefacts we are voting on are available here: > > > > wget > > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/couchdb/source/1.5.0/rc.2/apache-couchdb-1.5.0.tar.gz > > wget > > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/couchdb/source/1.5.0/rc.2/apache-couchdb-1.5.0.tar.gz.asc > > wget > > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/couchdb/source/1.5.0/rc.2/apache-couchdb-1.5.0.tar.gz.ish > > wget > > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/couchdb/source/1.5.0/rc.2/apache-couchdb-1.5.0.tar.gz.md5 > > wget > > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/couchdb/source/1.5.0/rc.2/apache-couchdb-1.5.0.tar.gz.sha > > > > Please follow the test procedure here: > > > > http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Test_procedure > > > > Please remember that "rc.2" is an annotation. If the vote passes, > > these artefacts will be released as Apache CouchDB 1.5.0. > > > > Please cast your votes now. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Dirkjan > > > -- Noah Slater https://twitter.com/nslater
