Some clarification of what constitutes a “hostile fork” would indeed be useful. On a few occasions I have had discussions with communities on joining Apache, and this often comes up. We have relied on precedent — and in particular, on-the-record comments by board members on this list — and it has been working OK.
Bertrand, can you clarify what you mean by “author”. Do you mean copyright holder or you mean the individuals? (In this case it is moot, as DataStax is the copyright holder and the individuals are now mostly DataStax employees, but in other cases it is a material distinction.) Julian > On Sep 29, 2016, at 11:05 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> > wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Chris Mattmann <mattm...@apache.org> wrote: >> ...I have a bit of a different understanding. We only accept code >> contributions >> that want to be here.... > > This sounds similar to the discussions we had about Bloodhound back in > early 2012 - Roy had some good comments about what we should or should > not accept, at https://s.apache.org/roy_forks_2012 > > It's not all black and white, but IMO we do need some form of > agreement from the original authors about the ASF taking control of > their code. Or maybe a demonstration that they really don't care about > it anymore, which some of the info in this thread hints to. > > -Bertrand > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
