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Stauts of these files

Posted Jan 19, 2013 16:30 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Stauts of these files by rcweir
Parent article: A discordant symphony

These files have not been published by Apache.

I note that people on the apache-legal mailing list were saying the precise opposite of this only two days ago, that anything in SVN counts as being distributed as long as anyone at all can download it. You even followed up and agreed with that statement. All very unclear.

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Posted Jan 19, 2013 17:00 UTC (Sat) by rcweir (subscriber, #48888) [Link]

Distribution != publication. See, for example, the MIT License where these are called out as separate rights.

AS Roy explained in a response:

"The dev subversion repo is not a means of distributing to the
"general public". It distributes to our self-selected development
teams that are expected to be aware of the state of the code being
distributed.

When we distribute to the "general public", it is called a release."

-Rob