> On Apr 13, 2016, at 2:08 PM, Alexander Shorin <kxe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Robert Newson <rnew...@apache.org> wrote: >> It's a thread derail but this notion that we're being "fairly rude" needs >> resolving. It might be lost to history now but we got here, I think, with >> the best intentions of ensuring all the code that appears in couchdb can be >> traced back to code hosted at asf. Is it a concrete requirement? I honestly >> forget but I thought so. > > Yes, that's the answer why. If one day mochiweb owner will decide to > drop his github repo, we shouldn't be leave with broken builds. See > leftpad story as well. Initially, that requirement seems redundant, > but recent npm drama showed that it has a huge point. Also there are > some legal bits about. > > -- > ,,,^..^,,,
All good points. I’m fine running off a fork but would like to see Apache give the author credit in the GitHub network. Adam
