Fwd: A question from the Fedora Foundation

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Wed Jan 18 21:36:21 UTC 2006


Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:

>On 1/18/06, Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote:
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>>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.
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>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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ASF is what we used for the Fedora CLA so this might a good model to 
follow. I would appreciate if someone sends me a summary of the 
foundation related ideas when this discussions wrap up. I dont have to 
time to follow all of the conversations. Pretty please?


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Rahul 

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