The Akka BSL license releases the changes as Apache license 3 years
after a release. Akka 2.7.0 was released a little over 3 years ago.
Its changes are now available to be added to Pekko.

On Thu, 6 Nov 2025 at 19:26, Brendan Doyle <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Sorry if this is a dumb question, but isn’t porting anything from Akka >2.6
> a license / legal issue once it moved onto BSL? I thought the expectation
> was that anyone working on Pekko shouldn’t be looking at Akka to not derive
> any intellectual work from the project post 2.6.
>
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM Matthew de Detrich <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > In regards to the zstd-compression work, I was waiting for a response to
> > https://github.com/apache/pekko/pull/2409#issuecomment-3469014680 but
> > since
> > none came through I will try and implement the backpressure friendly buffer
> > accumulation version that Arnout suggested with a time box. If I don't
> > manage to complete it within that time box then I will just do the dumb
> > simple version, as in any case the most important thing is to
> > unblock/create an API for pekko-http.
> >
> > I understand the concerns regarding having zstd-jni as part of the main
> > pekko-streams artifact but doing it this way would add a lot of complexity,
> > time and effort to the solution for what I see not that much gain (it might
> > be a different story if there was multiple production ready competing
> > suitable implementations of zstd on JVM but there isn't). Hopefully at some
> > point zstd will actually get added to JVM in the future, at which point we
> > can use it without even having to mess around with any artifacts/API with a
> > future Pekko release.
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM PJ Fanning <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > I don't think that we should port all the Akka changes. I'm happy
> > > enough with what we have already. If someone really wants a particular
> > > change, they can volunteer to add it.
> > >
> > > On Thu, 6 Nov 2025 at 13:28, kerr <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I think we should port all features of Akka 2.7.0  to Pekko 1.3.0, but
> > > I'm
> > > > quite busy at work right now...
> > > > The stream operators I want to add is already.
> > > > it was tracked here:
> > > >
> > > > https://github.com/apache/pekko/issues/2390
> > > >
> > > > 何品
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > PJ Fanning <[email protected]> 于2025年11月6日周四 02:33写道:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi everyone,
> > > > >
> > > > > We have a few changes awaiting release.
> > > > > * https://github.com/apache/pekko/milestone/21?closed=1
> > > > >
> > > > > There are a couple of PRs under discussion which we should hopefully
> > > > > get into the 1.3.x branch shortly. Does anyone have any other items
> > > > > that they want to talk about getting into 1.3.0?
> > > > >
> > > > > If there are no objections to doing a release, I can act as release
> > > > > manager.
> > > > > If anyone else wants to take on the role, please let us know.
> > > > >
> > > > > PJ
> > > > >
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