On 7/21/10 11:53 PM, Niklas Gustavsson wrote:
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.
No problem at all.
I must admit I thought that releasing a LGPL lib in a package was
forbidden, but in fact it's not, it's just against The ASF policy. In
this case, removing the package was a mistake, sorry for that to our users.
Thanks to Niklas and to the board. It demonstrates that board reports
are useful, that board is cautious, and that we have a good chairman :)
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Regards,
Cordialement,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com
