It is totally fine to release modified versions of Zookeeper. Just don't call it Zookeeper. You can (and likely should) say that it is based on (or powered by) Zookeeper, but don't claim it is the same thing if it isn't.
But are you sure that you wouldn't really rather contribute directly to Zookeeper itself? On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 5:11 PM Hunter Lee <hu...@linkedin.com.invalid> wrote: > Hi ZooKeeper devs - > > I wanted to get an opinion on public, open-source forks of ZooKeeper. I am > aware that there are companies maintaining private or public forks of > ZooKeeper to deploy & develop their own flavor of ZooKeeper (or ZooKeeper + > alpha), like to have a public fork with our own potential use case-specific > features or bug fixes, etc. > > Is the ZooKeeper PMC generally okay with the idea? I wanted to see if > there were any guidelines or advice regarding having a public fork. > > The idea is to give us the flexibility to generate artifacts on modified > source code (instead of solely relying on official artifacts from Maven > Central) and give ourselves an opportunity to contribute back to upstream & > collaborate in the future. > > Thanks, > Hunter >
