I'm not entirely sure, but I think that there may be a false dilemma here on the subject of forks.
In general, the Foundation does not permit us to absorb large amounts of code without a formal grant, even if the code carries AL markings. This has come up in the incubator over and over. So, even if Aether is dual-licensed, we cannot simply fork it back into the ASF without the cooperation of the copyright holder. If the copyright holder is cooperative, they can grant even if it's EPL, and if they are not interested in granting, then, a dual license isn't a 'license to fork' into ASF svn. On the other hand, a group of people can certainly make a fork at Codehaus or github, regardless of EPL or AL. So, if I've got this right, there is no particular advantage to us of sticking to the dual-licensed version. If there was an irreconcilable disagreement with Sonatype, we can fork outside the ASF either way, and if there's no such meltdown, we don't need to fork either way. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
