A discordant symphony

1) The codebase from Symphony was donated to ASF but this codebase is not being licensed "as is" to the community.
2) Even if the ASF makes the terms of the agreement public (as "demanded" by some pepole) that DOES NOT configure the contents of the SVN repository (containing the Symphony codebase) as freely available to the general public.
3) In order for the community to take advantage of IBM's donation to ASF, ASF would need to release the code (not the SW) to the general public under a license. This could be achieved without touching any file header. It would be necessary to include a manifest indicating which files in the SVN repository are part of the licensing process.

I see no reason not to license the codebase to the general public unless the terms of the agreement between IBM and ASF prevents this to be done.