[Mailman-Developers] Migration to sourceforge?

[J C Lawrence]

On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:06:40 -0400 
Bradley M Kuhn <bkuhn@gnu.org> wrote:

> I have been told that VA Linux doesn't dictate policy to
> SourceForge---they own it, but they don't seem to exert full
> control over it, giving the SourceForge developers some freedom to
> make these sorts of decisions.

SF is paid for out of VA's Marketting dept.  This explains many
things.

>      "We could really get a lot of use out of sourceforge for GNU
> mailman.  However, since GNU mailman is a free software project
> but not an open source project, it doesn't make sense to host it
> there the way the site stands, because it only reflects an
> affiliation with open source, and free software seems to be
> inadvertantly omitted.  Would you mention Free Software and Open
> Source equally on SourceForge, so we can host GNU mailman there?"

Ahh, this is different than I first understood.  Drop an email to
this effect to Tony (heads the SF project, forget email address) at
VA and CC it to Brian Biles (bbiles@valinux.com) and you should get
a good response.  

> Don Marti has been particularly sympathetic, but seems to need to
> be convinced a little bit more to make the change.

While Don works at VA, he really isn't involved in SF and so has
little direct say.

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