On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Robert Newson <[email protected]> wrote: > It's a thread derail but this notion that we're being "fairly rude" needs > resolving. It might be lost to history now but we got here, I think, with the > best intentions of ensuring all the code that appears in couchdb can be > traced back to code hosted at asf. Is it a concrete requirement? I honestly > forget but I thought so.
Yes, that's the answer why. If one day mochiweb owner will decide to drop his github repo, we shouldn't be leave with broken builds. See leftpad story as well. Initially, that requirement seems redundant, but recent npm drama showed that it has a huge point. Also there are some legal bits about. -- ,,,^..^,,,
