[Mailman-Developers] mailman / archive-ui / licensing questions

[Terri Oda]

On 03/29/2012 02:27 PM, David Jeske wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull<stephen at xemacs.org>wrote:
>> 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