+1 On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Orion Edwards <orion.edwa...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > 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: > > 1. *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. > 2. *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 :-) > > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > > -- Miguel A. Madero Reyes www.miguelmadero.com (blog) m...@miguelmadero.com
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