Re: Collaborative project and list fragmentation

[Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 17 May 2001 12:38 pm, you wrote:
> Hi all
>
> The posts have appeared there because of the rules Yahoo have about
> copyright which might rule out any commercial benefit that might be
made.
> Above all we don't want to dilute the hauk_d list

I really don't think any discussions of anything that could lead to
commercial benefit should be discussed on Yahoo groups, purely & simply
because of their T&C's

> The question has been raised that really that was not what habuy was
> created for, which is true but in the absence of anyware else it has
> happed.

Agreed, habuy wasn't created for this.

> Does anyone strongly object to us discussing the project there, with
> reflection perhaps it should have been called hauk_private ?

Yes, I object. Not because I'm not interested & don't think it belongs,
but
because doing so may jeapordise any future profits being made. Though how
litigous Yahoo would be remains to be seen yet.

> Does anyone strongly feel  (yet another) list needs to be created for
it ?

Isn't this the only option? With occasional progress reports to the main
ukha
group?

I know I suggested a Sourceforge group in the past, and it was rejected
because of their policy of being open source only. If my understanding of
"Open" is correct, there are certain licenses available that use
the word
"free" to mean "freely available" there's no reason why
you can't make profit
from open source software.



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