[appstream] RFC: Software Center & Copyright Assigment

[Richard Hughes]

On 6 May 2011 00:40, Vincent Untz <vuntz at gnome.org> wrote:
> I've been involved in several discussions with Canonical about this, and
> the result appears to be that this won't change in the near future.

Agreed. I'm really pissed off at Canonical for the complete lack of clue.

>  c) Completely fork.
>    This means everybody can work on the code, but the obvious cost is
>    that we will not directly benefit from the work done by current
>    contributors if they decide to not join the fork. And this obviously
>    requires people ready to drive the development (as in, write the
>    code, not give ideas).

I'd bet a small wager that if we forked the project, Michael would
pick up the fork as the main project, kinda like happened with GCC.

Richard.