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The project's governance says the maintainers can vote to make a decision. Why can't they vote to leave the CNCF?
by caleblloyd 3y ago
The project's governance says the maintainers can vote to make a decision. Why can't they vote to leave the CNCF?
- caleblloyd 3y agoI guess the answer may be that they can ask the CNCF to archive them, but the CNCF/Linux Foundation technically controls the domain and trademarks. So I guess they would need the CNCF to release those back to the project if they wanted to withdraw or move to another foundation. Interesting. > Trademarks and domain names of archived projects are still hosted by the CNCF and the Linux Foundation > The project is free continue development in its repositories, ideally with a goal to reactivate itself https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/main/process/archiving.md#archived-status https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/main/process/archiving.md#a...
- frozenhelms 3y agoCorrect, once the project is donated to CNCF, so is the trademark. Even if CNCF votes to archive the project, the trademark is still owned by them. I haven't seen an instance where CNCF released them.