david@lang.hm wrote:
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, MJ Ray wrote:
A foundation 40%-controlled by Liblime doesn't seem independent to me, so I feel it should be moved, but I can't think of how to name where it should go. Does a vendor tie seem in keeping with a FOSS project host corporation to anyone?
it's actually very common, think about Fedora, Ubuntu, SuSE to name just three.
Fedora, Ubuntu and SuSE seem to be dependent company projects of RedHat, Canonical and Novell respectively. Also, Ubuntu wasn't entirely FOSS last I checked and SuSE was and wasn't at various times. (I had to double-check Fedora because the Fedora Project looks like a stand-alone project host at first glance, but now I'm pretty sure there is only RedHat and no project host corporation. That's quite a marketing achievement.) So does this also suggest that a dependent company project might not remain entirely FOSS, too? Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Past Koha Release Manager (2.0), LMS programmer, statistician, webmaster. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for Koha work http://www.software.coop/products/koha