On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Rohit Yadav <bhais...@apache.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 12:53 AM, Chip Childers > <chip.child...@sungard.com>wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 12:10:08AM +0530, Rohit Yadav wrote: >> > Hi Abhi, >> > >> > You may upload on your people.apache.org/~ hosting space (which is on >> > Apache infra as well) and give the links to the community? >> >> That may not be something that Infra wants us to do in the p.a.o space, >> but I could be wrong. >> > > I not sure either, but I've seen people host different sorts of things, > binaries etc. and if Infra does not want us to do such things it kind of > beats the purpose of p.a.o space for publishing fair use contents related > to ASF projects. Can anyone help verify this? > > If these things are not allowed by the ASF Infra, we can surely host it on > sourceforge or other fair use hosting providers. I can surely host them on > my VPS and ask members of community. Also, does that mean I need to move > DevCloud2 appliance among other things from my p.a.o space? > > Cheers. >
The problem infra has isn't with you hosting content there. They assume that you'll not do things that are legally or morally unfit. The issue is pushing what is effectively a project download (and a large project download) that will be for general user consumption to people.a.o. To minimize the bandwidth impact to our generous colo providers, they've erected a mirror system to spread the load; and prefer that you use that rather than overloading a single provider and single machine. If we really wish to publish systemvms as a project, and not use Wido;s or some other system, we'd need to request permission from Legal to essentially host a convenience binary with lots of Cat-X licensed material, and actually put it in dist. --David
