From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1435 invoked by alias); 31 Oct 2003 11:07:43 -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 1368 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2003 11:07:42 -0000 Message-ID: <3FA2427C.3090500@eCosCentric.com> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:07:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Lunn Cc: eCos Maintainers Subject: Re: Way forward with FSF References: <3FA148B9.3000608@eCosCentric.com> <20031030185438.GC3802@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> <3FA16AFB.7010707@eCosCentric.com> <20031031104257.GV20816@eiger.ma.tech.ascom.ch> In-Reply-To: <20031031104257.GV20816@eiger.ma.tech.ascom.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg00033.txt.bz2 Andrew Lunn wrote: >>>I suppose we should also consider what happens if it all falls through >>>with FSF. They change there mind, or say they don't have the resources >>>needed to sort this out until this SCO thing is sorted out, they go >>>bankrupt paying legal fees, get burnt down in a bush fire,... The >>>assignments are then in limbo, being held by eCosCentric waiting to be >>>tranferred to somewhere they cannot go. >> >>I see your point, but I don't think we really have many alternatives. The >>public commitment isn't a legal thing, but since eCosCentric is focussed >>on eCos users, pissing off the entire eCos community in one fell swoop >>isn't exactly likely to be part of the agenda :-) (and I wouldn't be here >>if it was even considered!). If the maintainers collectively decide on a >>different course of action eCosCentric would abide by that. > > > I'd say this needs publically stating as part of the agreement to > forward to FSF. Its the obvious question people will ask when > considering why we are doing this intermediate solution. There is no > guarantee it will all be sorted out with FSF and people want to know > what happens then. Sure. It's also publically archived on this list :). Jifl -- eCosCentric http://www.eCosCentric.com/ The eCos and RedBoot experts --["No sense being pessimistic, it wouldn't work anyway"]-- Opinions==mine