Hi PJ! Thanks for moving the discussion to this list! For completeness' sake -- let me repeat the comments I made on the legal one:
On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 9:12 PM PJ Fanning <fannin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Apologies if this is not the right mailing list. If it is not, please > let me know and I'll switch the thread to the right list. > > Lighbend [1], the company that maintains the popular open source > framework, Akka [2], recently announced they are moving Akka to a > non-OSS commercial license [3]. > > There is interest in the OSS community in forking Akka under a new > name and maintaining it as an ASF project [4]. > > It is early days yet but there is some discussion online [5]. I would absolutely agree that there's clearly a need for a community supported, neutrally governed version of Akka under the Apache License. The real question is how can we make sure we've exhausted all the options to work with the original maintainers to achieve that goal. As you probably know, ASF doesn't look kindly on "hostile forks", but the key word in that phrase is *hostile*. So let's try to avoid that (if we can). So my question to you and everyone else on this list is: do you think we can somehow steer the disussion (on the GitHub) to gauge the level of interest of Lightbend (or individuals employed by it) to actually work *with* ASF to try and see whether a win-win here is possible? > Reading the incubator cookbook, a new podling would need to have > champions and mentors from within the Incubator PMC [6]. > > I would like to put my name forward for such a role, as an existing > ASF member [7]. Same here! (*) > If anyone else in the Incubator PMC would like to get involved, that > would be great. Count me in. I'd like to be involved all the way in this effort (regardless of whether we build some win-win combo with existing Lightbend folks or decide to do it with a new community). Thanks, Roman. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
