On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 10:43 AM Gregory Nutt <spudan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > just wanted to mention that there's also an automatic mirror on Gitlab at:
> >
> > https://gitlab.com/nuttx
> >
> There are dozens of mirrors of the NuttX Bitbucket repositories. Google
> nuttx+mirror to see some of them.
>
> An alternative disposition of the Bitbucket repositories might be to
> make them manual mirrors of the Apache repositories.  AFAIK Bitbucket
> does not support automated mirroring without a plug-in. But periodic
> manually mirroring of the Apache repositories would help by assuring
> that the Apache licensed code is pushed out to all NuttX mirrors as well.
>
> I really don't know what is the best thing to do.  I think, ideally,
> every user and every mirror should transition to the Apache code and
> that there should not be some creeping unsupported BSD version.  If
> someone decides to start supporting that stranded BSD version, then you
> would have a BSD fork to deal with.  And trademark issues too.  There
> cannot be a different OS called NuttX; there can be only one.  I just
> cannot imagine a positive scenario with retaining an unsupported BSD
> version of the RTOS.  I doubt the ASF would appreciate that either?
>
> Still just brainstorming..

I think we need to ask our mentors what is the generally accepted
thing to do with the project's earlier incarnation.

Nathan

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