On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> 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' under the terms of the license. if not, just what is the legal status of source code snipped from our repositories? > > 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 <ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> while answering a question on release policies and ALv2 >> I've suddenly realized that I really don't know what is the >> legal basis for enforcing release policies we've got >> documented over here: >> http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html >> >> 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? >> >> Thanks, >> Roman. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >
