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Pardon my ignorance: why would a project want to be moved to the Apache Software Foundation?

• Joakal 15y ago
  1) No longer want to develop on it but don't want it to go to obscurity. 2) Free hosting and willing Apache developers audience.
• daleharvey 15y ago
  Open source projects vary in 'openness', especially with the recent popularity of companies releasing open source products but strictly controlling them, which makes them less attractive for 3rd parties to depend on. The Apache Foundation goes to a lot of work to make sure that open source project operate in a certain spirit, they encourage to have a diverse set of committers (so they arent all from one company), they also provide some insurance on the legal side of things
  • hannibalhorn 15y ago
    It sounds like the legal insurance may be one of the bigger drivers in this instance. I find it rather maddening that a clothing chain has problems with the PhoneGap name - there's absolutely no chance of consumer confusion here.
• michaelbuckbee 15y ago
  If I see a project is supported by the Apache Foundation I consider it to be a more serious undertaking than I otherwise would. There are no end of frameworks and applications that are released as open source and then later abandoned (which is as it should be), the ASF imprimatur is a decent indication that the project will be around a while.