Hi, On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 2:33 PM, <g...@rudymail.ml> wrote: > ...There is actually a drawback from joining the community: all code > becomes licensed to the Apache Foundation under the Apache License...
This is actually a huge benefit for some types of projects and users, especially when it's about projects which are strategic to one's business. Our projects and their names belong to the Foundation, which is neutral and doesn't belong to any company, government or other organization. The risk with projects which belong to individuals or companies is that those can change their minds, disappear or sometimes become crazy or evil. And you're then in dire straits with such a project - there are many "interesting" examples of such failures. The neutrality of the ASF is a guarantee that our projects will be available forever (*) under the same permissive terms. We also have a clear mechanism at http://attic.apache.org/ for retiring projects while allowing anyone to fork them as needed. -Bertrand (*) the current thinking is "at least for the next 50 years" which should be sufficient ;-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
