The ASF licese applies to those things that the ASF owns copyright for. Not everything in the ASF repositories are owned by the ASF. The restriction is that if it isn't copyright ASF, then the license it is under *must* allow us to re-distribute it with ASF code.
That's why anything under the GPL cannot be placed in our CVS - we would be breaking the license conditions if we were to re-distribute with ASF software.
However, if the license is more permissive (or BSD like), we can still place in our repository, but we keep the original license. Note we are not claiming ownership (and do not whack an ASF licesnse on it) - just re-distributing.
Cheers,
BerinErwin van der Koogh wrote:
i sent a note out to the IBM folks asking for clatification. my VOTE would be to wait for their response before yanking it out
I wasn't actually thinking about the IBM stuff in particular, but in test vectors in general :)
IANAL in a long shot, but the more I think about it the more uncomfortable I feel about the files in CVS.. It's just that the IBM stuff got me thinking in the first place.
Regards,
Erwin
