"Policy is that binaries are not endorsed by the ASF. " I don't think anyone said anything differently.
There is a huge difference between endorsing a third-party binary and distributing it. But if I misunderstand and it is Apache's policy that we don't distribute any third-party binaries then we have a huge problem - indeed, I can't see how Apache can ship much of anything with that constraint. At the very minimum it should be written up somewhere, and projects like Lucene/Solr should be whipped into line because they've been doing this for close to a decade now, and there's a whole body of Apache materials describing just what third-party licensed materials can be distributed that should simply be thrown away. Karl On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Matt Hogstrom <m...@hogstrom.org> wrote: >> My point is that if push came to shove, legally, I think the -bin objects >> would be considered a distribution. > > I disagree. The ASF only releases source. > > If I understand correctly, changing that position undermines the > indemnification protections that have been painstakingly set up by Roy and > others. > > Policy is that binaries are not endorsed by the ASF. If you wish to > change that policy and secure the backing of the ASF for binaries (which I > will oppose), this doesn't seem like the right venue to make such a > proposal. > > If the policy of source-only releases is confusing to some of our Java > developers, perhaps we should revisit how we vet incubating releases of Java > projects to emphasize this policy. > > Marvin Humphrey > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
