On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Niklas Gustavsson <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Doug Cutting <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Niklas & the MINA PMC: In this month's report from MINA to the board, you >>> mentioned that you removed from archive.apache.org past releases that >>> mistakenly included items under the LGPL. In the future, please do not >>> remove such releases unless their distribution is in fact illegal. Including >>> items under the LGPL in releases is not illegal, just against Apache policy. >> >> We got a backup of the removed releases. So, if I understand >> correctly, the best option would be to restore these? > > No objections here. Beyond that, it is a MINA PMC decision. If I > were on that PMC, my take is that it would be in the best interest of > existing users if the releases were still available.
As seen above, the board has provided feedback the we do not need to remove the releases which contains the LGPL licensed file. Since I got a backup, does anyone object to me restoring this? If I do, I'll add a notice on our download page that M4-M6 contains a LGPL file and users should be aware. /niklas
