On Jan 6, 2012, at 8:17 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > The ASF is not about code; it is about community. If a community forks, or > otherwise emerges around a codebase, we are not accepting the CODE: we are > accepting the COMMUNITY. > > And it seems to me that if we are to say that a COMMUNITZY is not permitted > to participate despite use of code that is perfectly proper according to the > license, then we are beggaring out own license, the whole point of which is > to permit forks, and to prevent a sole copyright holder from assuming control > over the community. > > If a corporation were to create an ASF-licensed codebase, and later decide to > "take back" control, would we refuse a COMMUNITY-based project based on that > codebase?
The answer to that is yes. It has happened. Ralph --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
