<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:22 PM, David Champion <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@dchamp.net">dave@dchamp.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Nobody's mentioned this today...<br>
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<a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/21/1224259/Canonical-Fully-Open-Sources-the-Launchpad-Code" target="_blank">http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/21/1224259/Canonical-Fully-Open-Sources-the-Launchpad-Code</a><br>
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I'm guessing Matt has been a pretty busy guy today. Or is all the<br>
activity on this just in the Blogs?<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br clear="all">Well, I was up working on the pr until midnight but in all the excitement and being surrounded by people talking about it I forgot to mention it here.<br><br>I haven't had time to check out the code yet but I hear it's the largest OSS zope app. As a matter of fact, I believe that the planned for (but ultimately not needed) delay to the release was to switch the bzr archive over to a new format that decreased the size of the tree down significantly.<br>
<br>I've never seen the code so if someone gets the gumption to check it out I'd love to hear how it goes. I know Mark and Canonical both are very very serious about this and want to emphasize this is not a token gesture but they really want Launchpad to become a thriving open source project. Not to shift the development load onto the community (like some abandonware projects do) but to allow the community to help drive new features and improvements.<br>
<br>Note that it is AGPL3. Probably one of my least favorite OSS licenses but from an OSS purist's point of view one of the most potent.<br><br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin, <a href="http://identi.ca">identi.ca</a> and twitter<br>