[Savannah-help-public] [support #103855] Mailing list creation for avr-libc

[Joerg Wunsch]

Follow-up Comment #6, support #103855 (project administration):

Ah OK, that was easy to change then.



I know that commercial doesn't mean proprietary, but we

explicitly intend that avr-libc can be used in proprietary,

closed-source projects.  This is due to the target `market'

of what you're going to do with microcontrollers.  If you

develop for these controllers, most of your value is in the

software you write, so we wanted to impose as few restrictions

as possible about the way the people are going to use it.

(Even LGPL is not an option, as reverse-engineering object

code is a simple task given the rather small code that fits

into these devices.)



Feedback shows that this concept appears to work well.

People accept it, both in hobbyist applications (where they

enjoy the low cost, compared to expensive commercial compilers

which we are somehow competing here), as well as in the

industry where people enjoy the source code availability.

We often get more feedback from our userbase than we could

handle. ;-)



As for the old list archive, I'll ask the guy who runs the

current list to send them to you.  He needs to take the

existing list server down then in order to ensure the

archives will be complete (so noone can post to the old

lists anymore after the archives have been transferred), so

it would be nice if the new lists can be established rather

quickly then.  Where should he send the existing archives

to?  As they are raw archives with all email addresses, they

should be handled with some care, and preferrably not appear

somewhere where they can be downloaded from unauthorized

people.



I'll see to find out about the procedure to request a new

project, never did that before. ;-)

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