From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20985 invoked by alias); 3 Apr 2003 17:12:41 -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 20977 invoked from network); 3 Apr 2003 17:12:40 -0000 To: Jonathan Larmour Cc: Andrew Lunn , eCos Maintainers Subject: Re: Pros and cons of FSF References: <3E8BB24E.7080107@eCosCentric.com> <20030403082554.GB19888@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> <3E8C39C7.7030206@eCosCentric.com> From: Nick Garnett Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 17:12:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <3E8C39C7.7030206@eCosCentric.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-04/txt/msg00016.txt.bz2 Jonathan Larmour writes: > Andrew Lunn wrote: > > Hi Jifl > > Many of the cons seem negotiable with FSF, depending on host strict > > they are. Could you form a list of questions and see what they say? > > In fact, one of the purposes was to create this list so I could easily > see what the questions were :-). > > Yes I can do it, but I'd like some buy-in that if the answers were all > positive, this is something we would likely still want to pursue, > given my summarising e-mail. > > So are others (Gary, Nick, Bart, John, Mark) definitely interested in > pursuing this if the answers are positive? > It is certainly worth getting the answers. There are likely to be some compromises and we need to see what those are before making a decision. We don't really know yet which things the FSF consider sacrosanct and which they are flexible on. -- Nick Garnett eCos Kernel Architect http://www.ecoscentric.com/ The eCos and RedBoot experts