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

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