On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 13:20 +0100, alex bennett wrote: > Dear developer of Evince > For an assignment for my computing course to research on an open > source project, and communicate with a developer who currently > maintains the project and to research the software and its development > as open source software. > How did you become involved in the development of Evince?
There is no process AFAIK; very few Open Source projects have a 'process'. He [or she] who submits code is then a member. > Why was evince developed as an open source project? It is a GNOME application, and GNOME is Open Source. Really, why would someone develop as closed-source is a much better question. The best way to contact active developers is probably via the IRC channel listed on the project's home page. Or contact a team member directly - https://projects.gnome.org/evince/ > How has open source benefited the development of Evince? People can contribute. They cannot contribute to a closed source project. It also could not be part of the much larger GNOME community. And possibly it uses GPL dependencies [??? I don't know], in which case it legally must be Open Source [it is important to distinguish between GPL, LGPL, and non-GPL such as BSD and MIT/X11]. _______________________________________________ evince-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list
