On 1/24/2021 5:54 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 22/01/2021 Dennis Hamilton wrote: >> In the case of documentation projects and their repositories, the >> exception is not workable. > > Hello Dennis, nice to hear from you... it's been a while! > > I basically I agree to everything, but I go a bit further in that I > don't see a restriction on using an ASF-owned repository. > > We all agree that most of what was written to this list about licenses > mixes up releases and other work. Documentation does not go into an > Apache release and it does not undergo a formal vote by the PMC, so the > release policy does not apply to it. > > This means that people from the project can work on CC-BY documentation, > and here we agree. > > And, if you ask me, my view is that they can do that even using an > ASF-owned repository different from our source repository; then others > might believe that every commit is a release and then we might interpret > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-552 in different ways. > > But honestly I would still pursue the avenue of a dedicated ASF > repository. All we need to do is, maybe, reopen LEGAL-552 and ask for > additional clarifications. > > Regards, > Andrea. Greetings Andrea. As you suggested I have re-opened Legal-552 and requested further clarification. Hopefully it will be positive.
Regards Keith
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