Since I know one thing or two about Apache and the Apache License... perhaps I should chime in.
1. Pax Logger was actually donated to Felix once before, but nothing came out of it. It was a simple IP clearance paper to fill in and upload together with a tarball. This was simple because no community came with it. 2. Since re-licensing is not needed, all contributions in OPS4J can be handed over to Apache Software Foundation without getting approvals from individuals. Legally, Karaf could take the bits it wants and continue "over there", but that is against the tradition in Apache to not fork if the community doesn't want it. 3. IMHO, the main issue with Apache (or any other foundation) would be the "community". I would expect that everyone that has contributed anything would "come along" to Apache, in which case Karaf PMC might not be OK of accepting that many committers in one go, although they could do it. Going in via the Incubator is something I probably would recommend against. I haven't checked recently, but many years ago there were >100 contributors that had made commits to the Pax codebase. Of course, many just showed up for a single commit, and many are no longer around. But they shouldn't be ignored. Niclas On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 4:22 PM 'Christoph Läubrich' via OPS4J < ops4j@googlegroups.com> wrote: > This does not mean that it would only be possible under any > "governance-umbrella", but I also understand that Karaf is the main > consumer and/or driver of current development. > > Thus I'm not completely against it (and would not have any obligations > to give any organization the required permission for any contribution I > have made to pax projects), my only fear is that this process will even > be going further so things are getting more and more "karaf-like" and > other requirements are not taken into account anymore. > > So whatever is decided, I have really enjoyed all the years even though > contributions from my side are not always constant over time it was the > entry-point for me to getting started with OpenSource contributions. > > -- -- ------------------ OPS4J - http://www.ops4j.org - ops4j@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OPS4J" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ops4j+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ops4j/CADmm%2BKdr%3DgFHo5d7_aSLTm_uucaHW%3DyrEeQat%3DjjUth_BJDdGw%40mail.gmail.com.
