First, let me say that I don't think the Spring policy is going to end
up being as bad as it was made out to be at first glance, although that
may just be wishful thinking. In any case, I think it is extremely
premature to talk about forking the code.
I think if you were to put yourself in the position where you were a
happy employee of SpringSource looking to insure that your company stays
healthy into the future, you would find it difficult to support the code
being forked into the ASF. I certainly know I would. Although you'd
probably like to think that what you do at the ASF is completely
independent of your employer it is never really quite that simple.
Reinhard Pötz wrote:
Ralph Goers wrote:
Thorsten Scherler wrote:
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 09:10 -0600, Antonio Gallardo wrote:
Hi,
There is a worst case scenario now: What if they don't collect enough
money from subscriptions and do the next step: remove the 3 months
window or worse go full closed source?
How people feel to create a spring fork here on the ASF and we can make
sure that we will not have this problem in the future?
You do realize that some ASF board members are employed by SpringSource,
right?
Should this have any influence on our decisions?
