On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > > 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.
As always, the answer is a bit more subtle than that. More typically, what happens is somebody asks a few questions. Then the people who were pushing the idea realize that that they don't have answers. A bit of time passes. Then those who were originally pushing the idea state that they weren't allowed because some unnamed "they" wouldn't let them. > Ralph - Sam Ruby --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
