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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
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Subject: Clarification of "distribution" under the SGA
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The SGA contains the following:

"Grant of Copyright License. Subject to the terms and conditions
of this Agreement, You hereby grant to the Foundation and to
recipients of software distributed by the Foundation a perpetual,
worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable
copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of,
publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute
Your Contributions and such derivative works."

and similar language for patents. Is a checkout of code from an Apache 
svn repository considered "software distributed by the Foundation", even 
if said code is in an unreleased branch?

Thanks,
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

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