On Mon, Jan 9, 2023 at 12:22 AM Rupert Smith <rupertlssm...@googlemail.com.invalid> wrote: > > On Sun, 8 Jan 2023 at 08:08, Vladimir Sitnikov <sitnikov.vladi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > You are right about that, and I think that ultimately could prevent it > > from > > > happening > > > > Can you elaborate? > > > > Suppose Apache Bicycle project takes the current Elm code in a source > > form and evolves it. > > It should be pretty much possible. > > > > BSD-3 code may be included in Apache projects. > > BSD-3 does not forbid modifications. > > Eventually, the newly added files (and completely rewritten ones) > > would be licensed under Apache-2. > > > > To elaborate, I was under the impression that copyright ownership of code > had to be transferred to Apache, so thinking that is unlikely to happen so > would be a deal breaker. But your comments on BSD-3 compatability are > illuminating, thanks for the explanation.
FWIW: Apache HAWQ went through exactly the same exercise -- a lot of existing code was from Postgres (under BSD-like license) but the new code created when the project joined ASF was all under ALv2. Thanks, Roman. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
