From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26558 invoked by alias); 17 Dec 2002 08:44:01 -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 26544 invoked from network); 17 Dec 2002 08:43:58 -0000 Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 00:44:00 -0000 From: Andrew Lunn To: Jonathan Larmour Cc: eCos Maintainers Subject: Re: Future code ownership Message-ID: <20021217084251.GI350@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> References: <3DFDF6B7.8090008@jifvik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DFDF6B7.8090008@jifvik.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Filter-Version: 1.6 (ascomax) X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00002.txt.bz2 > Note: I have no intention of forcing people with an existing Red Hat > assignment to change. That's up to them, and I don't think it makes > significant difference since Red Hat's copyright on a lot of the code is > here to stay. However, I think it is in the best interests of the Open > Source project for any significant contributions to be "moved" to the new > system, and certainly this would become the requirement for new assignments. How does this 'move' work in practice? Do we change the copywrite headers on the source or does it keep the modified GPL? Can existing code, which i contributed in the past, like say the DNS & FTP client etc, be moved? Andrew