> How would people feel if Debian used it? > Gnome? M$? Jo-Shmo Consulting? Addresses are essentially public information but having people hijack our efforts to make them conveniently accessible does make me feel a bit uncomfortable. Maybe we should do like QT does and open the license to projects like Gnome (how ironic) and other OSS projects, but request a nominal subscription fee from commercial entities like Jo-Shmo Consulting (MS have their own marketing dept). It's a bit early to set any license in place just yet I think. The whole project as it stands currently has just begun (the server is recompiling its kernel and patches now) so it may be best to retain copyright for ourselves just now and not license it to others at all at this stage just to be on the safe side legally. It's a community effort and will stay that way, but at least for now we should be able to concentrate on creating something. With firmly retained copyrights it's easy to thwart abuse. Requests coming from the KDE community are so obvious and from familiar people that access can easily be granted on a per-individual basis, but I don't expect any requests coming from outside KDE anytime soon. The amount of information will simply be too small to be worthwhile for the time being. Personally I'd be comfortable if were to (partially) fund something like colocation of our server when it grows too big for my pipe. Contribution of new addresses or additional detail to existing ones would also be eligible for at least a discount if you ask me. But let's not get too hasty for now.. The kernel on the test box is almost done compiling. In the mean time I'm locking down the box as far as possible and will probably open a peephole for Mark late this evening or tomorrow morning so he can start implementing/testing/coding. Anyone interested in helping with the app should contact Mark since I don't want too many people on my box at once. Bandwidth is scarce, sorry. When the app is done I'll start filling it to see how it holds its own and others can start contributing if the app proves stable. We'll have to do quite some typing before it'll get even remotely useful to any 3rd party outside KDE-promo so let's get to that first. Regards, Bas -- -- Bas v.d. Wiel Kompas Media tel. 073-6234654 fax. 073-6238268 email: bas@kompas-media.nl _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.