Re: Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-24 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
Toshio Kuratomi wrote: Nigel Jones wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 01:59 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: Nigel Jones wrote: IIRC the GPL at least requires that the code be kept for 3 years (hence why we can't clean the look-a-side cache from memory). AFAIK that only goes to /distribution/

Re: Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-24 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: Given that we alone can think of a couple of arguments for or against GPL distribution for 3 years or not, and there's other licenses as well, this might be more appropriately handled by the legally literate people (no offense to you, I just know I certainly am not)

Re: Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-24 Thread Mike McGrath
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: Given that we alone can think of a couple of arguments for or against GPL distribution for 3 years or not, and there's other licenses as well, this might be more appropriately handled by the legally literate people

Re: Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-24 Thread Matt Domsch
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 09:43:29AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: Given that we alone can think of a couple of arguments for or against GPL distribution for 3 years or not, and there's other licenses as well, this might be more appropriately handled by the

Re: Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-24 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 13:36 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: Whomever distributes the binaries is responsible for ensuring source is available, either concurrently (ideally)(such as GPLv2 3a), or via offer-to-provide-source-on-media (GPLv2 3b). If binaries are not distributed from fedorahosted,

Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-23 Thread Mike McGrath
Getting back to this. What should we do with code to which no one claims ownership or the owner cannot be found? -Mike ___ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@redhat.com

Re: Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-23 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
Mike McGrath wrote: Getting back to this. What should we do with code to which no one claims ownership or the owner cannot be found? Has something like an AWOL procedure been considered? -Jeroen ___ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list

Re: Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-23 Thread Mike McGrath
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: Mike McGrath wrote: Getting back to this. What should we do with code to which no one claims ownership or the owner cannot be found? Has something like an AWOL procedure been considered? Not really, thats kind of what I'm probing about.

Re: Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-23 Thread Brett Lentz
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 16:53 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: Mike McGrath wrote: Getting back to this. What should we do with code to which no one claims ownership or the owner cannot be found? Has something like an AWOL procedure been

Re: Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-23 Thread Mike McGrath
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Brett Lentz wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 16:53 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: Mike McGrath wrote: Getting back to this. What should we do with code to which no one claims ownership or the owner cannot be found?

Re: Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-23 Thread Nigel Jones
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 13:58 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: Getting back to this. What should we do with code to which no one claims ownership or the owner cannot be found? * Make Trac Read Only (maybe static content too, in old.fedorahosted.org/projectname/) * Disable commit group in FAS (in

Re: Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-23 Thread Brett Lentz
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 18:14 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Brett Lentz wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 16:53 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: Mike McGrath wrote: Getting back to this. What should we do with code to which

Re: Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-23 Thread Nigel Jones
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 18:43 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Nigel Jones wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 13:58 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: Getting back to this. What should we do with code to which no one claims ownership or the owner cannot be found? * Make Trac Read Only

Re: Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-23 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
Nigel Jones wrote: IIRC the GPL at least requires that the code be kept for 3 years (hence why we can't clean the look-a-side cache from memory). AFAIK that only goes to /distribution/ under GPLv2 section 3b, not the upstream SCM, but then again I'm not sure and it may be worthwhile looking

Re: Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-23 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
Mike McGrath wrote: For how long? Here's the concern. At some point between now and the end of time decisions are going to have to be made about these projects. I'm trying to have us learn a lesson from the elvis move as well trying to make sure other's lack of planning doesn't become

Re: Stale Fedora Hosted Projects (revisited)

2008-09-23 Thread Nigel Jones
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 01:59 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: Nigel Jones wrote: IIRC the GPL at least requires that the code be kept for 3 years (hence why we can't clean the look-a-side cache from memory). AFAIK that only goes to /distribution/ under GPLv2 section 3b, not the