From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2982 invoked by alias); 18 Dec 2002 04:00:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 2905 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2002 04:00:02 -0000 Subject: Re: Future code ownership From: Gary Thomas To: Jonathan Larmour Cc: Andrew Lunn , eCos Maintainers In-Reply-To: <3DFFF152.7030107@eCosCentric.com> References: <3DFDF6B7.8090008@jifvik.org> <20021217090748.GM350@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> <3DFFF152.7030107@eCosCentric.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 (1.0.3-4) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 20:00:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1040183990.32279.2394.camel@hermes.chez-thomas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00019.txt.bz2 On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 20:53, Jonathan Larmour wrote: > Andrew Lunn wrote: > >>3) A commercial entity interested in picking up the eCos "banner", such as > >>eCosCentric. > > > > Does this mean eCosCentric is actually willing to do this? > > Only willing if that's what the maintainers want. I'm wearing a very > different hat in eCosCentric and as a maintainer. I want to do what's best > for eCos, even if it conflicts with what eCosCentric wants. To be honest, > I don't think it's very likely we'll choose this option - I just threw it > in there for completeness, but tell me if I'm wrong! > > > Has Mind been approached? What is their opinion on this. > > Dunno. Gary might have the best take on that if they don't speak up > themselves. I can only talk loosely - I don't speak for Mind, but I know their feelings. Mind would prefer that copyright ownership be as non-commercial as possible. Since eCosCentric (as well as Red Hat) are competitors of Mind, having the copyright be in eCosCentric's name could be considered counter to such a goal. A central body, such as SPI, would be ideal. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | MLB Associates | Consulting for the +1 (970) 229-1963 | Embedded world http://www.mlbassoc.com/ | email: | gpg: http://www.chez-thomas.org/gary/gpg_key.asc ------------------------------------------------------------