I don't think that it's up to the IPMC to decide that the legal notices aren't worth getting right unless a corporate elephant decided to trumpet about them. My view is that we, as a PMC, are responsible for only shipping releases that meet some minimum standard. I am trying to extract a definition of that minimum standard from legal.
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Joe Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Trust me, nobody here has any legal training either. > We're just more familiar with policy, not so much the > rationale behind it. And no I'm not saying this > kind of review is worthless, I'm just trying to > adjust priorities to better match reality- we can > provide this "legal" feedback in other ways than simply > voting against a release, and that's what I'm > pointing out here. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> >> To: Joe Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com>; "general@incubator.apache.org" >> <general@incubator.apache.org> >> Cc: >> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 12:46 PM >> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Expressing priorities about release reviews >> >> >> >> >> On 1/14/13 9:20 AM, "Joe Schaefer" <joe_schae...@yahoo.com> >> wrote: >> >>> The thing is Alex, all of this effort >>> to dot our i's and cross our t's on the legal >>> issues really is only for the benefit >>> of major corporations who want to incorporate >>> our work into some corporate-branded application. >>> Actual end users of our software do not benefit >>> one iota from the type of nitpicking we do on >>> general@incubator, nor does the org's reputation >>> for clean IP hinge on these considerations. >>> >>> My attitude is to let the elephants in our projects >>> provide their own feedback directly to the projects >>> on the legal nitpicks that cause them pain- we do not >>> need to police these minor issues on their behalf in a >>> generic way. >>> >> I'm not sure I know what an "elephant" is in this context. And >> I'm not >> quite sure what issues are considered 'i' and 't'. IMO, it was >> a good >> lesson for our podling to see that we can get delayed by not getting the >> LICENSE and NOTICE and other files right, so we had proper expectations set >> for when we became a TLP. And IMO, because IANAL and nobody else in the >> podling is either, it was good to have other sets of eyes on the reviews. >> >> -- >> Alex Harui >> Flex SDK Team >> Adobe Systems, Inc. >> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
