HI, > I think that serious = release blocker;
That would also be my meaning. People / podlings have requested that release blockers be allowed in podling releases. > I'd love to hear some examples. I suspect they are all legal. Sure some recent examples (without mentioning any pooling name, but I can supply links if you want): - Including code license under a category B license - Including code under an unknown license - including code under a permissive license, which required you to include the copyright and license text, but not including that text anywhere (LICENSE file or file header) The last one is probably the most common, especially with Javascript when license headers seem to be optional. Any project including jQuery or Bootstrap immediately encounters this as they have embedded 3rd party code without license headers. We’ve allowed all of these situations, although I can also point to Category B inclusions where we have not allowed them. We’ve also allowed GPL dependancy and I think GPL inclusion (would need to check) with VP legal/VP incubator OK on a once off basis a while back. The provision being that it was fixed next release. All of those would be against the terms of the license, which I assume you mean by legal? Or do you mean something else by that term? > I'd definitely like to see change. My feeling is that there's a lot we can > make that falls comfortably within the scope of the Incubator PMC. As Roman also suggested, we should discuss this with the legal committee and come up with a list to give podlings clearer guidance. > IIRC the release policies came out of the Incubator; I don't recall there > being a > request for the board to ratify them, but I might be failing to remember > something a decade+ ago :) From several discussion it been made clear that we don’t own them, the board does. Interesting enough this say legal affairs does [1] when we’ve also been told they don’t. :-) In some cases there's been a nice triangle, where legal, infra and the board all say it someone else responsibility but not the incubators :-) > By that are you suggesting that the text implies a guarantee that those are > the only issues? Issues can be found in the IPMC vote not the podling vote, so some of these serious issues won’t be listed in the disclaimer when the IPMC votes on it. Thanks, Justin 1. http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#administration --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
