Re: Evolution copyright assignment: Storm in a teacup

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

On Llu, 2004-08-09 at 14:42, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 06:42 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >    - (potential) requirement of C#/Mono
> 
> The current licensing state for Mono is even more problematic than
> Evolution, since it has been confirmed that wanting to be able to make
> proprietary derivates _is_ intentional.

The bigger problem there is patents and patent concerns, but can we
keep that discussion seperate. Evolution right now doesn't seem to 
need Mono and if it did then a fork can (and probably would) occur.

> Not withstanding how clean a slate Novell want's to show the world
> (freeing a lot of proprietary code) it's very easy for a company to
> 'pull an SCO' when on soaring death, specially when it actually becomes
> a litigation copany (such as SCO is now).

Painfully true. 

Alan