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frozenhelms | 2 years ago

Once a project is donated to CNCF, it is donated in full. You cannot withdraw. They would need to withdraw from the project, but they cannot withdraw the project itself.

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caleblloyd|2 years ago

The project's governance says the maintainers can vote to make a decision. Why can't they vote to leave the CNCF?

caleblloyd|2 years ago

I 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#a...