Just taking Logging as an example, former Log4J lead Ceki did exactly that with SLF4J. I don't know, if any actual code was forked there, it's more likely SLF4J inspired the new design of Log4J 2 (which took more than a decade to improve over the old version ;-) here and there.
Werner On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Reza Naghibi <[email protected]> wrote: > > ...Listen, im not stopping anyone from moving forward here. Im just > saying > > this is not for me.... > > Ok - of course no one can prevent you from starting another project. > > The alternative is to try to start it here, try to get interested > people to join, and benefit from the Apache infrastructure and best > practices while doing so. > > If that doesn't work, the Apache license does allow you to fork that > code elsewhere, as long as that new place is not called "DeviceMap". > > -Bertrand >
