On (29/09/05 00:45), Brian Teeman wrote: > It's actualy a bit more fundamental than who was appointed to the > Foundation. The foundation was originaly the recommendation of the developer > community and it was decided by the Mambo Steering Commitee (MSC), comprised > of developers and representatives of Miro, that, amongst other things, all > IP and copyrights in Mambo would be transferred to the Foundation on its > establishment. > > Documents were drawn up and approved by the MSC and we, the Mambo > Developers, were informed that an application to create the application had > been lodged with the appropriate Australian authorities. > > However when the applciation was approved the Devleopers were informed that > the foundation that had been created was not the one that had been approved > and in addition Miro would not be transferring the IP and copyright. > > As a result the entire development team of Mambo felt that they were left > with no option but to leave. The full text of their statement can be found > here http://www.opensourcematters.org/content/view/1/1/ > > If you want to know more about this you can hear Andrew Eddie speak about it > at the LinuxWorld Expo & Conference next week
Thanks for the clarification; I now recall reading this. Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list Fsfe-uk@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
