On 9/08/2010, at 6:42 PM, Jimmy Schementi wrote: > > This is a monumental opportunity for you all, the IronRuby community, to > rally around something Microsoft invested in, enough to a initial 1.0 > release, and make it your own. However, there are two things we should ask > Microsoft to commit to during this transition: > Be clear about their intentions. I know this will eventually happen, but I > want to make it clear to all of you that this is the first step. > Donate IronRuby to a non-Microsoft entity (again, assuming they don't plan on > continuing funding). Though IronRuby is licensed under an open-source > license, it is copyright Microsoft. IronRuby.net is owned by Microsoft. The > GitHub "ironruby" organization is managed by Microsoft. Etc, etc. If the > intention is to cease funding IronRuby, then a non-profit foundation owning > IronRuby, like CodePlex Foundation, would be ideal, so that we don't need to > jointly own the copyright. There also is precedence in Microsoft for internal > employees to donate to the CodePlex foundation, so Tomas and Jim can continue > to contribute.
+1 This seems like an ideal fit for something like the Codeplex foundation, and as far as I can think, it would solve pretty much all the current uncertainty around the future of IR :-)
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