RIght. That's why I call it "opt-out" rather than opt-in. If there is no active community to opt out, then I see no problem with us picking up the codebase and (re)forming a community around it.
With ALv2 licensing on the codebase, I believe we have most of the rights we need, but will continue that over on legal-discuss. Cheers, -g On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Chris Mattmann <mattm...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Bertrand, > > Taken in the opposite case, is there someone from OpenSOC > objecting to this code being forked? It doesn’t sound like > there is a community there. > > > Cheers, > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> > Reply-To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <general@incubator.apache.org> > Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 2:02 AM > To: Incubator General <general@incubator.apache.org> > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Metron incubator proposal > > >Hi Owen, > > > >On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Owen O'Malley <omal...@apache.org> > wrote: > >> ...The > >> condensed version is that the original code base (OpenSOC) was created > >>by a > >> company (Cisco) that put it on github as ALv2, but then hasn't been > >>working > >> on it. We posted a message > >> > >>< > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensoc-support/rFlW2uSSvmU/Sw_cO-T2AAAJ > >>> > >> to the OpenSOC support group a month ago proposing a move to Apache and > >>got > >> a single positive response... > > > >The response I see there ("this is great news - looking forward to > >working with you") does not look to me like approval from whoever owns > >that code to move it to the ASF. > > > >What's needed IMO is approval from whoever owns the code that's at > >https://github.com/OpenSOC/opensoc . As usual, although the license of > >that code would allow us to fork, we only accept voluntary > >contributions. > > > >-Bertrand > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > >For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
