Re: GWeather suckage

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 08:04, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 12:52, Luis Villa wrote:
> 
> > > 	* Before some GNOME distributors could ship the software which used the
> > > service, they may require some guarantees around availability and long
> > > term support. Would be be prepared to give such guarantees ?
> > 
> > The only GNOME distributor who has had a problem with the current
> > situation is Sun. If Sun wants those guarantees, they need to provide
> > the resources for them. Otherwise, I'd presume GNOME services would be
> > the same as GNOME Software- to quote the GPL, "BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS
> > LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE
> > EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW."
> 
> 	Sure, the only distributor might see it as a problem is Sun. That may
> not always be the case, though. Which is why I phrased that in such a
> vague manner. In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have had, though :-)

<nod>

It's true that Ximian might concievably care about this some day. I'm
sure some Sun people would say that we're bush-league until we do. ;)
But really, what Owen said is the right thing- if we care, we should run
it ourselves on our own bandwidth. weather.ximian.com/2.4/ :) 

Luis