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From: Ross Gardler <rgardler@opendirective.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:30:15 +0000
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On 16 January 2012 18:18, Filip Maj <fil@adobe.com> wrote:
>
>>Fil,
>>
>>Would you explain why fair governance and project neutrality depends upon
>>Apache infrastructure?
>
> Fair governance and neutrality don't rely on any specific infrastructure
> (be it Apache or GitHub), rather, the entity that owns the code in the
> first place, and the processes that are followed by everyone to
> collaborate on a project decide that. Apache is a not-for-profit
> foundation that owns the code,

Actually the ASF does not own the code, the individual contributors
do. The ASF just has a licence to redistribute the code and the
copyright in the collective work (as opposed to individual
contributions).

This doesn't change what you say, it just reinforces it further.

Ross


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