I wouldn't have a problem with ESME existing under another name on github. I just know that after a year of writing Apache board quarterly reports - each one a copy of the last and reporting no activity, it is time for a change.
D. On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Jack Park <[email protected]> wrote: >> At some risk of social hari kari, would it make sense to fork the >> project over to, say, Github and continue its development there >> without the risk of being sent to the boneyard?... > > There's absolutely no problem with that except the name, and as we're > seeing it's probably an easier way to continue with a smaller team. > What would be bad is forking an existing community, but this community > as almost non-existent now. > > The name issue is that the ESME trademark belongs to the Apache > Software Foundation, so the forked project needs to use a different > name. One such example is http://ibatis.apache.org/ which changed its > name to MyBatis when it left the foundation. > > -Bertrand
