On Aug 18, 2009, at 5:13 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote:
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From: Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com>
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 8:00:00 PM
Subject: Re: Making up policy on the fly
On Aug 18, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Craig L Russell wrote:
So I found it: http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html
Please take a look at
http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#distributing-code-under-several-licenses
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If this document is not normative, please let me know. Granted, it
says
"should" and not "must", so if there is a discussion presumably
it's about
whether "should" means "must".
Otherwise, let's shut this discussion down and start following the
rules.
OK then. There is something wrong with how hard that was to find
though. And
you're right, instead of "If An Artifact Contains Code Under
Several Licenses,
Should It Contain Several License Files?" it would be much better
if it read "If
An Artifact Contains Code Under Several Licenses, May It Contain
Several License
Files?". However, I think we should pretend it does.
It's written the way it is because we are aware that not all Apache
projects
comply with the recommendation.
Being ambiguous is no way to set policy.
I don't really care whether the license file contains all the license
text or points to other licenses, but by saying "should" it basically
says "This is our preferred way of doing it, but if you are doing
something else no one is going to stop you." Since it doesn't say
what the other options are that would imply that even having to search
for the other license files is OK too, as long as they are somewhere
the user can find.
How about PMC's should vote on releases? Maybe we should just leave it
at "PMCs should vote on the source code for a release". "Apache
projects should use the Apache license".
Yes, this gets ridiculous, but if you don't say what is acceptable and
what is not then don't bother to say anything at all.
I remember when the policy regarding @author tags was set several
years ago. Plenty of projects were using them to identify developers.
Ralph
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