The Apache Brand [was: Re: Joining the Apache Foundation]

2017-01-19 Thread Greg Trasuk
> On Jan 19, 2017, at 9:50 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz > wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 2:33 PM, 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 benefi

Re: Joining the Apache Foundation

2017-01-19 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 2:33 PM, 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 wh

Re: Joining the Apache Foundation

2017-01-19 Thread Shawn McKinney
The ASF is for the community, i.e. community over code. It’s benefits are numerous and include: - high-quality infra, e.g. issue tracking, automated testing, code scanning, mailing lists, IRC, binary and source distribution, etc. - project mentorship, ASF is packed with folks that understand ho