On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Joe Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: Gianugo Rabellino <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Tue, January 12, 2010 4:35:44 PM >> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Dealing with copyright issue (See ESME-47) >> >> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: >> > ----- Original Message ---- >> > >> >> From: Gianugo Rabellino >> >> To: [email protected] >> >> Sent: Tue, January 12, 2010 4:20:14 PM >> >> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Dealing with copyright issue (See ESME-47) >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: >> >> > I'm hoping another lengthy diatribe from you won't be >> >> > necessary. While I don't blame you for David's disappearance, >> >> > the reason we bother to document policy is so people don't >> >> > need to get creative with their legal understanding of how the ASF >> >> > works. >> >> > In the future should this issue ever present itself to you, >> >> > I hope you will do the proper thing and point the errant person >> >> > at the relevant ASF policy >> >> >> >> That would be the same policy that says we _must_ remove copyright >> >> notices from source files, right? >> > >> > Technically it says the copyright holder must do that, not the ASF. >> >> Oh, please - let's not go there. The fact that the policy misses a (4) >> remove the file in question still doesn't mean the "must" is >> irrelevant. That would be playing with words. > > The policy isn't lacking that. The issue is simple- how to treat commits > that are licensed to us properly but fail to follow policy? The answer > is simple, either the committer modifies those commits to comply with policy > or his commit access will be revoked and the committed code will be subject > to third-party treatment. In this case the project has elected to be slightly > more accurate with the situation, but they have done no harm to the org > nor the committer in question by doing so.
There would be a lot to comment on you interpolating the policy text, for a start. Maybe it's just better we all forget about this mishap, otherwise we are going to spend the next few days arguing about the wording of a policy that, to me, is now just a simple guideline. I guess I'll just sit here, hoping the day will never come where I will have to pull a told-you-so. -- Gianugo Rabellino M: +44 779 5364 932 / +39 389 44 26 846 Sourcesense - making sense of Open Source: http://www.sourcesense.com
