On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:48 AM, Niclas Hedhman <nic...@hedhman.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:07 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > As far as I know, putting a file in a publicly accessible SVN > > repository is considered as distribution too. > > No, I am very positive that this is not the case. Legal dilligence is > done on the release artifacts separately from SVN issues. Unlike > release artifacts, SVN are at times incomplete, incorrect and > inaccurate. "Tags" have no legal meaning whatsoever, and should not > even be part of the discussion. > > And that matches "What is a release?" in the ASF Releases FAQ (although SVN its not explicitly mentioned): http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#what ...ant