Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread William A Rowe Jr
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > A snapshot is not a release. Licenses "kick in" at distribution/ > release. > Lets just imagine if Jim, VP Legal is actually correct in his interpretation, and that there are no AL 2.0 licenses applicable to our source code repositories,

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread William A Rowe Jr
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Christopher wrote: > It sounds to me like you're saying that the license under which code is > offered (to anybody who encounters it) is independent of the license > declaration attached to the project. > No, the license is that which was granted by the author, a

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread Christopher
It sounds to me like you're saying that the license under which code is offered (to anybody who encounters it) is independent of the license declaration attached to the project. This makes sense to me, presuming that we still agree that the license declaration (header or license file) is the best

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread Benson Margulies
This thread started as a discussion of Linux distros and trademarks. Perhaps I could try to return it there? If a distro takes a release of Apache X, compiles it with minimal changes that adapt it to the environment, and distributes it, I believe that it's a fine thing for them to call it simple A

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread William A Rowe Jr
On Aug 20, 2015 8:19 PM, "William A Rowe Jr" wrote: > > On Aug 20, 2015 7:39 PM, "Alex Harui" wrote: > > > > > > > > On 8/20/15, 5:27 PM, "William A Rowe Jr" wrote: > > > > >It is generally AL code all the time. I don't know where you invented a > > >'kick-in' concept, but unless the committers

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread William A Rowe Jr
On Aug 20, 2015 7:39 PM, "Alex Harui" wrote: > > > > On 8/20/15, 5:27 PM, "William A Rowe Jr" wrote: > > >It is generally AL code all the time. I don't know where you invented a > >'kick-in' concept, but unless the committers are violating their > >ICLA/CCLA, > >nothing could be further from the

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread Alex Harui
On 8/20/15, 5:27 PM, "William A Rowe Jr" wrote: >It is generally AL code all the time. I don't know where you invented a >'kick-in' concept, but unless the committers are violating their >ICLA/CCLA, >nothing could be further from the truth. Committers sometimes make mistakes. IIRC, Justin re

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread William A Rowe Jr
On Aug 20, 2015 08:52, "Jim Jagielski" wrote: > > Coming in late. > > A snapshot is not a release. Licenses "kick in" at distribution/ > release. I want to fix FUD before it infests the rafters and subfloor. I really have never read something so stupid or ill phrased... Every contributor commit

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread sebb
AFAIK a SNAPSHOT has not been voted on and is therefore not a formal ASF release. So for example this would cover CI builds that deploy jars to the ASF Maven SNAPSHOT repo. On 20 August 2015 at 23:33, Mike Kienenberger wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Gavin McDonald > wrote: >> So wh

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread Mike Kienenberger
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Gavin McDonald wrote: > So what do we do about all the rc1|rc2|rcx ,alphas, betas and Milestone > ‘releases’ that are on our official mirrors right now? > > (Because they would have been voted on as a ‘’release’’ for the projects to > put them there in the first pl

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread Gavin McDonald
> On 20 Aug 2015, at 2:52 pm, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > Coming in late. > > A snapshot is not a release. Licenses "kick in" at distribution/ > release. > Interesting. So what do we do about all the rc1|rc2|rcx ,alphas, betas and Milestone ‘releases’ that are on our official mirrors right no

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread Ajoy Bhatia
Pardon me from jumping in but... Roman's original question was: > > > > *For example, what would be the legal basis for stopping a 3d party from > releasing a snapshot of ASF's project source tree and claim it to be a > release X.Y.Z of said project?* > So he was asking about someone taking what

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread Alex Harui
On 8/20/15, 9:26 AM, "Benson Margulies" wrote: > >However, a quick search reveals that there are precisely zero >occurrences of the word 'release' in version 2.0 of the Apache >License. > >So, I don't know what Jim meant by 'licenses kick in at release', but >my view is that putting source in a

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread Benson Margulies
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Benson Margulies > wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: >>> Coming in late. >>> >>> A snapshot is not a release. Licenses "kick in" at distribution/ >>> release. >> >> Are you

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: >> Coming in late. >> >> A snapshot is not a release. Licenses "kick in" at distribution/ >> release. > > Are you sure? When you have a public source control repo, with a > LICENSE fil

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread Christopher
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: >> Coming in late. >> >> A snapshot is not a release. Licenses "kick in" at distribution/ >> release. > > Are you sure? When you have a public source control repo, with a > LICENSE fi

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread Benson Margulies
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Coming in late. > > A snapshot is not a release. Licenses "kick in" at distribution/ > release. Are you sure? When you have a public source control repo, with a LICENSE file at the top, I would think that this counts as a legal 'publication'

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread Jim Jagielski
Coming in late. A snapshot is not a release. Licenses "kick in" at distribution/ release. There is also a trademark issue as well... only the ASF can declare something as a release. > On Aug 6, 2015, at 8:50 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > > Hi! > > while answering a question on release policie

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-20 Thread Ulrich Stärk
You can't generalize from a single sample. I see the pattern of email addresses with varying amounts of numbers in them, some of them also very long, every year with GSoC students. Uli On Thu, August 20, 2015 00:32, sebb wrote: > The recent spammers have used quite unusual e-mail addresses, with