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Re: Future code ownership


> 6) Software in the Public Interest, Inc. is a US not-for-profit 
> organisation. <http://www.spi-inc.org/> Its goals are to advance open 
> source. They are well known already as the copyright holders of many well 
> known projects like Debian Linux, GNOME, LSB as well as owners of the Open 
> Source marque, and so on. They are trusted.  We have already taken the 
> step of asking them in principle if they could accept eCos as a project, 
> even with our funky licensing proposal outlined above. And as you can see 
> from 
> <http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/resolutions/resolution-2002-10-08.mgs> 
> this was accepted.
> 
> Personally I favour this option. I think it is best for eCos as an Open 
> Source project, and I would like to hope even Red Hat would be able to 
> support it, as it would be in the long-term best interests of eCos. 
> Besides if the licensing proposal does pay off, they would profit!

Has the opinion of RH been sought on this? 

To me, this does seem like the best option.

   Andrew


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