From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4199 invoked by alias); 2 Dec 2004 14:28:38 -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 4043 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2004 14:28:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jifvik.dyndns.org) (81.104.194.28) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 2 Dec 2004 14:28:27 -0000 Received: from eCosCentric.com (garibaldi.jifvik.org [172.31.1.2]) by jifvik.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B960C40561; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 14:28:25 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <41AF2688.3010601@eCosCentric.com> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 14:28:00 -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: FSF license? References: <1101912905.16904.445.camel@hermes> <41AE07B4.1070504@eCosCentric.com> <20041202082134.GP9303@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> In-Reply-To: <20041202082134.GP9303@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-12/txt/msg00004.txt.bz2 Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 06:04:36PM +0000, Jonathan Larmour wrote: > >>Gary Thomas wrote: >> >>>Any news on this? Any hopes that it will *ever* happen? >>> >>>We've been in a holding pattern for nearly a year... >> >>I was thinking about this just last night. I propose that when it hits one >>year in, ooo, 6 weeks, we send RH legal a warning that if it isn't resolved >>ASAP we will issue a Press Release expressing our >>dissatisfaction/disappointment etc. with Red Hat for breaking their promise. >> >>And if they don't respond, indeed issue a Press Release, and send it to >>lwn, slashdot, etc.etc. Perhaps even have it at the front of the ecos web >>site. >> >>It's time to force the issue. If we wait till Jan 13th the PR will be able >>to be written for better effect. > > > How about sending the warning two weeks before the year is up letting > them know that on the anniversary the press release will be published. > I think its important to put a date to the threat so they at least > know when they have to do something by. A straight year seems better > than 1 year plus a couple of weeks. Suits me fine too. Jifl -- eCosCentric http://www.eCosCentric.com/ The eCos and RedBoot experts --["No sense being pessimistic, it wouldn't work anyway"]-- Opinions==mine