Fwd: A question from the Fedora Foundation

Chasecreek Systemhouse chasecreek.systemhouse at gmail.com
Wed Jan 18 21:33:05 UTC 2006


On 1/18/06, Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote:
> Or that person can just fork the distro and keep the benefits for his own
> organization. If I'm gonna put a million bucks into the system, I want a
> substantial say in how it's spent.

The Apache Software Foundation is a good model; all efforts become
part of ASF and anyone can fork the code for commercial benefit if
they so desire -- there is no reason to invest in ASF if they plan on
forking the code to some other end.

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