On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Matthieu Riou <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:48 AM, Jonathan Ellis <[email protected]> wrote: >> > "Do not include any links on the project website that might encourage >> > non-developers to download and use nightly builds, snapshots, release >> > candidates, or any other similar package. The only people who are >> > supposed to know about such packages are the people following the dev >> > list (or searching its archives) and thus aware of the conditions >> > placed on the package. If you find that the general public are >> > downloading such test packages, then remove them.
>> This really seems like an area that projects should be able to set >> their own policy guided by common sense. > Fuck no :) None of us are lawyers, yet releasing is unfortunately a step in > that land. Releasing open source is even more touchy. Believe it or not, > there are companies that employ lawyers to check releases licensing before > adopting one. Even Eclipse does that. So releases are really an area where > you want to have very tight common policies, the last thing the ASF wants is > an official, ASF-endorsed release continaing some GPL code or code copy / > pasted from proprietary software by a careless contributor. That is all very well and good but that doesn't explain what the problem is with saying "here's where to find the bleeding edge." A nightly build is inherently not an official, endorsed release. -Jonathan
