On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 01:15:21PM -0400, Joe Schaefer wrote: > > 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].
This is simply at odds with the license :-) > Anything else increases the personal liability of anyone involved in > putting that tarball up on the website for download. That's a side effect, yes. It's never stopped me, but that window of liability does exist in our procedures. There all sorts of other holes in that "shield" too anyway :/ > 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, It's not about implications, it's about the simple fact that the very license contained in those very files grants everyone an irrevocable right to distribute it. > 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. it also makes them slightly harder to scrape :-) -- Colm MacCárthaigh Public Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
