On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 5:59 PM, David Arno <da...@davidarno.org> wrote: > ...Apache's insistence on owning products and restricting > who can make changes is irritating. For example, I'd like to create a > private -> protected fork of Flex and stick that on github as it's a > specialised product. Under Apache rules though, I'd have to call it > something other than Flex, even though it would remain open source...
Those rules are here so that no one can own one of our projects - only the foundation owns them. If everybody played fair we might not need such rules, but in our real world and in the long term that's not the case. -Bertrand