On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:03 AM, Josh Berkus <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/19/11 2:51 PM, Henrik Ingo wrote: >> Last year I looked into this topic and my >> recommendation to Brian was Software in Public Interest, which in my >> opinion has a good reputation and is very low key, flexible, low >> overhead organization. This proposal was accepted by those present in >> Santa Clara. I will be moving forward this process in the next few >> days. In the meantime I thought I could also share some facts about >> SPI and what this means. > > I can help with getting Drizzle under SPI. I am a former board member. > Please contact me about preparing a proposal.
Great. I will contact you off-list and make a record here that your friendly help is much appreciated! > Note that, among the umbrella foundations, SPI is the "minimum > involvement" one. Most of the projects involved with SPI just treat it > as a bank account. SFC and Apache provide a lot more structure, but > also require a lot more involvement. Yes, and this is considered a feature :-) Apache is unavailable to MySQL forks as they require licensing under Apache License, other than that, with the LAMP stack and everything it could have been a great alternative. SFC indeed made the impression of being a bit too much involved, it seems if you foresee that you'll be needing lawyers to assert the GPL and other stuff, they are good at such things. (Related to MySQL forks, I also considered it a disadvantage that at least the unofficial parent organisation SFLC is or was heavily Oracle/Sun funded - could be awkward for everyone involved.) henrik -- [email protected] +358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo www.openlife.cc My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
