On Feb 21, 2007, at 1:08 AM, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
One thing that seems to have been forgotten is that an approved
release must be in the form of SOURCE CODE and must be placed
in the associated PMC's public distribution area under
http://www.apache.org/dist/
The second "must" there in that sentence has been topic of much
debate. I believe the main arguments against it go along the lines of
"are not real apache releases", "we should not bother our mirrors
with this", "goes against infrastructure release policy", etc.
Should we interpret the below
In turn,
that gives us a simple URI that can be used to direct government
inspectors for the export license page
http://www.apache.org/licenses/exports/
The export regulations don't care whether a product is labeled
as incubating or not. Therefore, placing incubating releases
somewhere other than regular releases is self-defeating. The
Incubator PMC must ensure that approved releases are published
in the correct location after being approved, such that the
release is archived correctly, and the easiest way to do that
is to follow the same guidelines as all of the other projects.
as "we make US government officials unhappy (to say the least) if we
put releases (for their definition of release) that are or might be
subject to export laws in any location other than www.apache.org/dist/"?
- Leo
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