Re: Question: how to property fork an apache project

2020-10-24 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
No, the ASF will not provide legal advice for this. But have you considered getting a 3rd person involved, and having a viable PMC instead? -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On

Re: Question: how to property fork an apache project

2020-10-22 Thread Otto Fowler
Ok, I make sure we do our best to comply to the distributed works clauses. Would there be a way to have the result checked by Apache? On October 22, 2020 at 16:14:20, Mark Thomas (ma...@apache.org) wrote: Hi, Putting on my VP Brand Hat... On one level, forking is easy - just follow the

Re: Question: how to property fork an apache project

2020-10-22 Thread Mark Thomas
Hi, Putting on my VP Brand Hat... On one level, forking is easy - just follow the terms of the ALv2. The TL;DR version is as Bertrand describes, copy the code, change the name, keep the NOTICE file (which credits the ASF) and job done. The above is an over simplification for most cases. For

Re: Question: how to property fork an apache project

2020-10-22 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 6:08 PM Otto Fowler wrote: > ...I am on the PMC of an Apache project that looks like it is heading to the > attic. We have a sub project that I and at least one other committer would > like to fork out of Apache in order to continue development One similar case

Question: how to property fork an apache project

2020-10-22 Thread Otto Fowler
It was suggested by bdelacre...@apache.org that I post this question here. I am on the PMC of an Apache project that looks like it is heading to the attic. We have a sub project that I and at least one other committer would like to fork out of Apache in order to continue development. We do not