[Koha] Fwd: LibLime ideas on a Koha Software Foundation

[MJ Ray]

david at 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,
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