Re: Eazel
- From: Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>
- To: bart eazel com
- Cc: gnome-hackers gnome org, staff eazel com
- Subject: Re: Eazel
- Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 04:27:15 -0400
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 02:59:57PM -0700, Bart Decrem wrote:
> I regret to inform you that Eazel is in fact shutting down.
This is sad news,
> In the midst of these difficult times, our hackers have managed to hit
> two major milestones for Nautilus: our 1.0 and 1.0.3 releases. We would
> like to express our gratitude to the Eazel hackers for keeping their eye
> on the ball over the past 2 months.
Yes, kudos ! Getting the 1.0.3 release out nonetheless in such a
situation shows how dedicated you are/were in delivering better software.
This itself deserves a round of applaudes IMHO.
> Nautilus is licensed under the GPL, so the software will live on and, we
> hope, continue to improve. It is my understanding that Darin, Andy, and
> several other key Nautilus contributors plan to continue to work on
> Nautilus on a volunteer basis. Expect to hear from Darin and Andy
> shortly. Miguel has indicated that he and others at Ximian will also
> contribute to Nautilus to ensure that it continues on as the file
> manager for GNOME and meets the users' needs.
The code is there, it will continue to have a life of its own.
I wonder if any Copyright assignment has been done and if it is still
time to do it if needed.
> Like many of the people who worked at Eazel, I fully plan to stay
> involved with free software and GNOME. On behalf of everyone from
> Eazel, *thank you* for having welcomed us into the free software family,
> and GO GNOME!
And thank you for having contributed as a commercial entity a major
piece of the infrastructure ! We all hope that at an individual level
you will stay around hacking or contributing to Nautilus or GNOME in
general !
Again, thank you !
Daniel
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