On Nov 15, 2006, at 3:37 PM, Carl Trieloff wrote:
Steve Vinoski wrote:
This all comes down to discipline. As Dan explains, we can't just
grab any old code we want and cram it into our release, regardless
of whether we're using maven or not. There are legal reasons for
this,
What are the legal reasons? if Apache or BSD licensed you can use
part or the full work, source or binary form.
Precisely, but that means it has to be properly licensed to begin
with. Dan already explained this -- only the PMC for a given project
can release that project, due to the need for digital signing,
approvals, license notices, etc.
--steve