Future code ownership
Andrew Lunn
andrew.lunn@ascom.ch
Tue Dec 17 01:27:00 GMT 2002
> 6) Software in the Public Interest, Inc. is a US not-for-profit
> organisation. <http://www.spi-inc.org/> Its goals are to advance open
> source. They are well known already as the copyright holders of many well
> known projects like Debian Linux, GNOME, LSB as well as owners of the Open
> Source marque, and so on. They are trusted. We have already taken the
> step of asking them in principle if they could accept eCos as a project,
> even with our funky licensing proposal outlined above. And as you can see
> from
> <http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/resolutions/resolution-2002-10-08.mgs>
> this was accepted.
>
> Personally I favour this option. I think it is best for eCos as an Open
> Source project, and I would like to hope even Red Hat would be able to
> support it, as it would be in the long-term best interests of eCos.
> Besides if the licensing proposal does pay off, they would profit!
Has the opinion of RH been sought on this?
To me, this does seem like the best option.
Andrew
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