On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Antoni Mylka wrote:
If I upload a file to JIRA and forget to tick the "not-for-inclusion" checkbox and don't say/write anything then ASF will imply that I grant it the right to redistribute it under ASL. Someone will commit it and it will get included in the source package.
POI doesn't use JIRA, we use bugzilla, so we don't have that tickbox. We therefore assume that everything uploaded to bugzilla is a contribution under section 5 of the Apache License v2, unless we're told otherwise
If this is so, then govdocs are OK. Let the US Government sue me (and the Naval Postgraduate School for that matter) for "redistributing" documents they marked as public anyway. There is no real danger.
If we know that someone doesn't have rights to contribute something to us, then we shouldn't be accepting the contribution.
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