From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jemarch@gnu.org (Jose E. Marchesi) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:30:26 +0200 Message-ID: <87li91nmhp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20130401202613.0b4201e3@anarchist> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364905837 20554 80.91.229.3 (2 Apr 2013 12:30:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 12:30:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Barry Warsaw Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 02 14:31:03 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UN0Mg-0005tB-F2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:31:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60220 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UN0MH-0002W6-P3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 08:30:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59410) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UN0MD-0002Vu-G8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 08:30:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UN0MC-0000h0-3H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 08:30:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50457) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UN0MC-0000gv-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 08:30:32 -0400 Original-Received: from g226031253.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.226.31.253]:46217 helo=termi.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UN0MB-0002XN-94; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 08:30:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20130401202613.0b4201e3@anarchist> (Barry Warsaw's message of "Mon, 1 Apr 2013 20:26:13 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:158533 Archived-At: >The point is, I am trying to determine whether Bzr is effectively >maintained or not. I'd rather get a Yes answer than a No answer. Given that Bazaar is GPL v2 and the contributor agreement is not that onerous IMHO (e.g. you retain copyright to your contributed changes), what's stopping the user community from stepping up to help to maintain it, just like any other free software? Not that onerous? The Canonical Individual Contributor License Agreement requires you to explicitly authorise Canonical to license the contributed software under a proprietary license. See section 2.3 of the agreement. -- Jose E. Marchesi http://www.jemarch.net GNU Project http://www.gnu.org