Hi,

>  After Justin pointed out that there is CSS under CC-BY-4.0 in 
> MDLBlogExample, I took a closer look
> and realized that really, I think these two examples are just ports of
> Google's examples and thus should remain under Google's copyright

Yep I agree with that.

> There is also a thread open on legal-discuss to verify that CSS is
> considered to be "media" and not "source code".  If it is "source code"
> then we have to treat the example as Category X and remove the CSS and
> text from the repos and releases.

Hopefully some-one on legal discuss with reply and it will be resolved quickly. 

> It is, as always, unfortunate that these issues are not discovered when these 
> files are first committed to
> the repo as has been recommended by more than one experienced Apache
> member instead of during the release process.

Yes is is unfortunate that the PMC failed to notice this issue. The issue had 
actually been brought up before the MDL code was checked in to a repo and there 
was some discussion about the issues but it wasn’t fully resolved. It’s 
unfortunate, that we forgot about that discussion, and that it slipped between 
the cracks.

If the last call process had been followed it probably would of come up then 
rather than with the first release candidate but I’m not sure that would of 
saved any time.

Thanks,
Justin

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