Re: [Mailman-Developers] mailman / archive-ui / licensing questions
On 03/29/2012 02:27 PM, David Jeske wrote:
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Stephen J. Turnbullstephen@xemacs.orgwrote:
I would say you should try to retain copyright, and have the Mailman project distribute it with the S-BSD license under the "mere aggregation" clause of the GPL. This agrees with my view of the situation as well. Which leads to the question, is the above approach interesting/viable for Mailman-team? (assuming the code does something awesome that people want)
If the question is just "would you like another archiver even if the licenses don't match?" then I believe the answer is yes. I think it would be really beneficial for us to have more than one archiver on the table sooner rather than later, and working with you to make sure all the plumbing is there to connect things would be really beneficial to us. The licensing issue might mean you're probably not guaranteed a blessing as the standard archiving utility for Mailman, but that never stopped other projects like MhonArc!
But... since you arrived around the same time GSoC started, I should ask whether you were hoping to do this as a GSoC project? It'd be a worthwhile project to put out there, but it might be lower priority for us than more direct development, since one of the goals of GSoC is to get new developers who are going to stay around and do future work with the project.
Terri
This agrees with my view of the situation as well. Which leads to the question, is the above approach interesting/viable for Mailman-team? (assuming the code does something awesome that people want)
If the question is just "would you like another archiver even if the
On Apr 2, 2012 3:07 PM, "Terri Oda" terri@zone12.com wrote: licenses don't match?" then I believe the answer is yes.
The question i "would you BUNDLE another archiver even if the licenses don't match?"
My archiver has been available for download (like many others) for ten years. All these sites are still running a limping pipermail archive, because it's bundled. I want to get Mailman a better bundled archive.
But... since you arrived around the same time GSoC started, I should ask whether you were hoping to do this as a GSoC project?
Perhaps it would make things more clear if I expledin why I'm here...
I'm not a student. I've been working in software for 15 years, programming for almost 30 (since I was 9). I wrote large portions of eGroups / Yahoo Groups / Google Groups. I'm a successful post-Google entrepreneur. Since leaving Google I've been angel investing mostly in tech stuff (see my Angel List).. I've been donating notable chunks of money and time to open source projects (with my blender donations working out the best so far). Given my history, and the fact that I keep wanting to tear my hear out reading mailing list archives in pipermail, I thought I'd give you folks an archiver that would be nice.
HOWEVER, I personally will not write GPL code. I might submit a tiny patch or bugfix, but I'm simply opposed to restrictions on how someone uses something that I'm trying to donate to the software community. (i.e. you're never going to turn me into a mailman developer, the best you'd get is me writing my own mailman-ish and releassing it under S-BSD.. if you want that, let me know)
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