Hi, [branching a discuss thread]
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > As I replied to Marvin, Apache Roller had a hard dependency on > Hibernate for some of its incubator releases. Allowing that was okay'd > by the IPMC, VP Legal, and the Board :-) > > My view is that these are not true ASF projects, so *some* wiggle is > allowable, especially with a plan in hand. Note that even though podlings aren't full Apache projects yet, incubating releases *are* official Apache releases, and should therefore be held to a similar standard. If that standard can't easily be reached, some podlings (like Subversion when it came in) have opted to keep cutting non-Apache releases outside the ASF until those issues have been resolved. > It's certainly a subjective judgement call. I don't know where to draw > the line, nor whether we must draw it. One of those "know it when you > see it" things. And we have the judgement of a large body of people > here on this list. Personally I'm fine with things like missing license headers or partially incomplete license metadata (which sounds like is the case here), as long as those are just omissions that don't fundamentally affect our rights (or those of downstream users) to distribute the releases and as long as there's a commitment to fix such issues in time for the next release. Such minor issues are fairly common also in many TLPs (I've filed a number of related bugs), so it's not even a problem that's limited just to the Incubator. Larger issues like exceptions to documented licensing policy (like in the examples brought up here) should always be explicitly cleared with legal, etc. BR, Jukka Zitting --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
