The legal status of a work is not determined by the markings on it. If someone granted a license to the ASF, they granted a license. If a third party jumps the gun and grabs a copy, and complies with the situation, they're fine, including ripping out the obsolete markings for themselves.
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >> >> On the other hand, somebody taking said snapshot and releasing it under >> the >> name Project BOO, licensed under the ALv2. Is something that both the ALv2 >> license AND our trademark policy are totally fine with. > > > What if (not a fictional example; a real case) the code is taken from a > branch that comes from a recent code donation and source headers are still > in the process of being updated to comply with the donation? Waiting for > that code to be included in a formal release for sure solves the problem. > But if one doesn't want to wait, I wouldn't know what to suggest. > > Regards, > Andrea.
