[Mailman-Developers] mailman / archive-ui / licensing questions

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 3:56 PM, David Jeske <davidj at gmail.com> wrote:

> ...this discussion is all just about whether mailman wants to bundle (or
> reference) near-future updates to this stuff. I was hoping that rather than
> create my own separate OSS-y website and such for it, I could just hang out
> here and roll it into Mailman-land. You guys have done great work.

I can't see any technical or legal reason why you would need to
maintain a separate site.  I would be more than happy to help maintain
a Mailman-based site providing links to resources such as tarballs,
VCS repos, and docs (this site would presumably be on the wiki) and a
repo on Launchpad, which I think takes care of any social issues.  It
wouldn't be specific to the Clearsilver archiver, I'd do the same for
any other archivers people care to recommend.

As for a GPL-wrapped release bundled into Mailman, I'll do admin-level
work to make that possible if the Clearsilver archiver is adopted and
that's the way people want to go.  I have experience with that kind of
thing, and am happy to help lubricate that kind of friction.  (I might
be willing to do more hacking/maintainer-like work if people decide to
make significant GPL-only enhancements, but I won't decide whether to
do that until I've seen both the existing code and any such
enhancements.)