On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 10:27 AM Tomasz CEDRO <to...@cedro.info> wrote: > Regarding kconfig-frontends I am in touch with Espressif and Debian > maintainers, also contacted initial author Yann MORIN. Maybe putting > this package into the Apache organization would be a good idea if > possible..?
It occurred to me that if Yann MORIN doesn't want to maintain kconfig-frontends then perhaps we could ask for a one-time SGA and relicense; but then I think that kconfig was originally a Linux kernel thing that Yann MORIN and/or perhaps others managed to separate from the rest of the Linux build system and turn into a separate project. If so, then it probably falls under GPL and I don't know whether it is even feasible to relicense. Let's wait to hear from Yann MORIN, who will hopefully respond to your email, and see where to go from there. There is also another possibility of asking ASF for permission to host critical dependencies such as this and other tools under a separate repo. Normally this isn't done but exceptions have been made for projects with a long history and user base, e.g., Apache OpenOffice has its own website, openoffice.org, rather than being under the apache.org namespace. That was a specific exception for that project. Nathan
