Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
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

Re: apache binary distributions

2015-08-25 Thread Stephen Connolly
So there is - to my mind - the obvious stuff: 1. The package description should ACK our marks. End of Story there. 2. The package description should call out those cases where there are significant deviations from the "official" distributions. Significant deviations will be determined by the indiv

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-25 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > [Failing at dealing with this cross-posted and variously-branched discussion > on two lists, > so I am doing it too. Also OT with respect to Ross's declaration, but it has > to do with the > fact that "release" is not so well disting

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-25 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Fascinating discussion, who started this thread? ;-) On a more serious note (actually, very serious one): On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > Our policy is that the combined works are RELEASED under ALv2. That combined > work > is only licensed as such when the foundation fo

Re: apache binary distributions

2015-08-25 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 1:46 AM, Stephen Connolly wrote: > But I am still awaiting guidance from brand on whether a technical name > usage - e.g. installer package name - is a use of the mark. Makes two of us. I see a log of good consensus on this thread which helps me get a gut feel on what is t

Re: apache binary distributions

2015-08-25 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:06 AM, William A Rowe Jr wrote: > There are some special things here we do have absolute control over. If a > project wants to provide the 'official' build, why not start signing the > .jar? This! This is such a great idea. Would love this to be weaved into our policy (

BatchEE Report - why are they monthly

2015-08-25 Thread John D. Ament
All, I believe the BatchEE podling is incorrectly set to monthly reports. If I look at the schedule, they should have reported in June, but were late and reported in July. I believe they should have been taken off monthly but weren't and as a result were expected to report in August (and now Sep

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-25 Thread William A Rowe Jr
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > > On Aug 20, 2015, at 10:23 AM, Benson Margulies > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > >> Coming in late. > >> > >> A snapshot is not a release. Licenses "kick in" at distribution/ > >> release. > > >