From: Andrew Lunn <andrew.lunn@ascom.ch>
To: Jonathan Larmour <jifl@jifvik.org>
Cc: eCos Maintainers <ecos-maintainers@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Future code ownership
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 08:29:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021217162909.GA1044@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DFDF6B7.8090008@jifvik.org>
> But we can give them an option: a solution is to allow licence opt-outs,
> like Red Hat had been able to do by themselves up to earlier this year
> (but not after personal copyright from the maintainers got added of
> course). This would set us at a par with commercial OS vendors. But we
> can't compromise our integrity without a considerable pound of flesh. So
> we charge. The figures would probably depend per deal, but it could well
> be in the order of thousands of dollars. Maybe. Don't know. Haven't tried
> it :-). Unfortunately that money would have to be split with Red Hat, a
> commercial entity, but as Red Hat's role in eCos diminishes, so too is
> their leverage.
A question which is probably out of scope of this discussion:
How do you measure RH role and hence there split of the money?
Proportion of the number of patches per year? Lines of code
contributed per year? Number of files with pure RH copywrite headers?
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-17 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-16 7:52 Jonathan Larmour
2002-12-17 0:44 ` Andrew Lunn
2002-12-17 19:57 ` Jonathan Larmour
2002-12-17 1:09 ` Andrew Lunn
2002-12-17 15:24 ` Bart Veer
2002-12-18 0:40 ` Andrew Lunn
2002-12-19 5:09 ` Jonathan Larmour
2002-12-17 19:54 ` Jonathan Larmour
2002-12-17 20:00 ` Gary Thomas
2002-12-17 1:27 ` Andrew Lunn
2002-12-17 5:47 ` Gary Thomas
2002-12-17 9:16 ` Andrew Lunn
2002-12-17 8:52 ` Gary Thomas
2002-12-17 12:29 ` Jonathan Larmour
2002-12-17 8:29 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2002-12-17 12:23 ` Jonathan Larmour
2002-12-17 8:38 ` Andrew Lunn
2002-12-17 12:18 ` Jonathan Larmour
2002-12-17 8:42 ` Andrew Lunn
2002-12-17 8:56 ` Gary Thomas
2002-12-17 12:00 ` Jonathan Larmour
2002-12-19 11:52 Frank Ch. Eigler
2002-12-19 14:39 ` Bart Veer
2002-12-20 14:21 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2002-12-22 15:21 ` Bart Veer
2002-12-23 7:53 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2003-01-02 14:55 ` Jonathan Larmour
2003-01-12 2:42 ` Jonathan Larmour
2003-01-22 2:22 ` Jonathan Larmour
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2003-01-02 16:21 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
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