> On Aug 20, 2015, at 8:27 PM, William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote:
>
> On Aug 20, 2015 08:52, "Jim Jagielski" <j...@jagunet.com> 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 committing code to any ASF project, or even contributing
> it to us in public forums (including our mailing lists, our bug trackers,
> etc) is committing that code under the AL or has designated explicitly what
> licence it came in under (commit message: forked from BSD-licensed code
> base at {URL}.)
>
> 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.
>
>> There is also a trademark issue as well... only the ASF
>> can declare something as a release.
>
> There we agree :)
Please reread what was said... We are talking *releases* here.
Making something publicly available is NOT A RELEASE. It may be
under a license, but is IS NOT A RELEASE.
For god's sake Bill, calm down.
