On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Leo Simons <[email protected]> wrote: > So the generic policy is there is no generic policy, and instead there > is appropriate application of judgement to specific cases.
Generic policy doesn't mean you couldn't use judgement or make exceptions. In principle, if the ASF's mission is to build communities around source code, we should not accept forks of open source projects if that's not the (consensus) will of the original community. Kalle On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Donald Whytock <[email protected]> wrote: > It occurs to me that the ASF, in enforcing open-source licensing, > becomes a source of free legal advice to the open-source community, > whether it intends to or not... > > 1. Contribute a body of code to ASF. > > 2. "Is it legal for us to accept this? Better run it past legal@." > > 3. Use acceptance of the contribution as certification that it can be > used by the contributor. > > Just sayin'. Not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. > > Don > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
