On Sun mulls about buying Novell and what that means for software such as Evolution. http://news.com.com/Sun+mulls+buying+Novell/2100-7344_3-5292579.html On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 09:03 -0700, Rob Adams wrote: > As a community, we need to decide whether we are interested in seeing > copyright on project code assigned to a publicly-held, proprietary > software company, no matter how benevolent it may seem at present. > There are dangers involved, though the dangers are mitigated by the > nature of the GPL -- that much I can tell you without a lawyer. Sun is not really benevolent, specially in dangerous matters such as software patents. Sun has (fortunately) made big and valuable contributions to our GNOME community, but that's only because it suits it as a company who also has some interest in the desktop area (replacing the very bad CDE, JDS, etc...) and not simply out of good will. But this is getting very OT, this should be brought up to the GNOME Foundation (please respect the reply-to I've set and don't continue the thread here). Foundation board, would you please look into this subject? Should the Foundation pressure Novell into assigning copyright to the FSF or GNOME Foundation? And changing the copyright assignment rules to match this change? The Main Problem[tm] I see is that even though the GNU GPL gives us some assurance to fork, some of the main developers, however, could probably be locked out of development on the Free Software version, and that would be a strong nuisance. Regards, Rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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