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Does Akka.NET have any licensing dependencies on Akka? I wonder if this will push people there (please go to F#) or Elixir and Erlang.

by bmitc 4y ago

pbz 4y ago
My understanding is that the .NET version is a port and only related in the style/approach. However, if I was them I'd consider renaming the lib. Looks like the name "Akka" is tainted at this point.
whaleofatw2022 4y ago
Akka.net is a bit behind from the scala version in features... This will make it more difficult to catch up however, as the JVM version and code is obviously used as a starting point for bringing functionality over. The main part of it I can think of that was home-grown was the original Akka.Net Split brain resolver, but once light bend open sourced theirs, the project ported that over anyway.
pjmlp 4y ago
Akka.NET is written in C#.
- bmitc 4y ago
  I know.
  - pjmlp 4y ago
    By the F# reference didn't seem like it.
    - bmitc 4y ago
      Just wishful thinking of an influx of .NET and Akka developers coming to F# instead of C#.
Aaronontheweb 4y ago
Maintainer of Akka.NET here - we're not really affected by this change. 1. We're still porting features that are all licensed under Apache 2.0, as other comments have mentioned. 2. None of Akka.NET's source code has been authored by Lightbend and we certainly don't fall under their Contributor License Agreement (CLA.) The copyright headers of the Akka.NET files includes a Lightbend attribution currently, but we've included that in there largely out of an abundance of caution - and it's actually a little erroneous for us to do that since many of the files in our projects don't exist in the original Akka source. Our source was contributed to the .NET Foundation years ago - so I'll ask their OSS counsel if there's anything we need to do differently going forward to keep our source germane under Apache 2.0.
- bmitc 4y ago
  That’s great! Hopefully this means some JVM developers will move over to .NET.

Does Akka.NET have any licensing dependencies on Akka? I wonder if this will push people there (please go to F#) or Elixir and Erlang.

by bmitc 4y ago

Does Akka.NET have any licensing dependencies on Akka? I wonder if this will push people there (please go to F#) or Elixir and Erlang.

pbz 4y ago

My understanding is that the .NET version is a port and only related in the style/approach. However, if I was them I'd consider renaming the lib. Looks like the name "Akka" is tainted at this point.

whaleofatw2022 4y ago

Akka.net is a bit behind from the scala version in features... This will make it more difficult to catch up however, as the JVM version and code is obviously used as a starting point for bringing functionality over. The main part of it I can think of that was home-grown was the original Akka.Net Split brain resolver, but once light bend open sourced theirs, the project ported that over anyway.

pjmlp 4y ago

Akka.NET is written in C#.

bmitc 4y ago
I know.
- pjmlp 4y ago
  By the F# reference didn't seem like it.
  - bmitc 4y ago
    Just wishful thinking of an influx of .NET and Akka developers coming to F# instead of C#.

Aaronontheweb 4y ago

Maintainer of Akka.NET here - we're not really affected by this change. 1. We're still porting features that are all licensed under Apache 2.0, as other comments have mentioned. 2. None of Akka.NET's source code has been authored by Lightbend and we certainly don't fall under their Contributor License Agreement (CLA.) The copyright headers of the Akka.NET files includes a Lightbend attribution currently, but we've included that in there largely out of an abundance of caution - and it's actually a little erroneous for us to do that since many of the files in our projects don't exist in the original Akka source. Our source was contributed to the .NET Foundation years ago - so I'll ask their OSS counsel if there's anything we need to do differently going forward to keep our source germane under Apache 2.0.

bmitc 4y ago
That’s great! Hopefully this means some JVM developers will move over to .NET.