Joe Schaefer wrote: > > Colm MacCarthaigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 05:09:08PM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > >> Hmmm... seems that - even though we've *repeated* this multiple times, > >> we have to state this again. Contents of http://httpd.apache.org/dev/dist/ > >> are *development* tarballs and not for any distribution. > > > > It's called "dist", clearly they are for any level distribution anyone > > feels like. Unless you want us to re-license! > > But the "dist" should be limited to people who are on/pay attention to > this mailing list [1]. Anything else increases the personal liability of > anyone involved in putting that tarball up on the website for download. > > If putting files into dev/dist conveys the implication that you intend > for people to be *redistributing* those artifacts, then I think it > is a mistake, and you'd be better off using people.apache.org/~foo > for putting up candidates to test. That doesn't stop people from > redistributing candidates, but it doesn't conflate the fact that > the ASF/this PMC has done nothing to endorse them. >
Personally, I intend to, in the future, put all candidate tarballs under my ~jim link; Not that this will remove the problem at all, but at least it avoids the irritating claim that somehow by placing under dev/dist we are "releasing" the s/w. -- =========================================================================== Jim Jagielski [|] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [|] http://www.jaguNET.com/ "If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball."
