From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Announcement: Git Ltd Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 13:43:48 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 01 14:44:47 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jgfqy-0006F1-OA for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:44:41 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756530AbYDAMnk (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 08:43:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754438AbYDAMnj (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 08:43:39 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:37804 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753869AbYDAMnj (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 08:43:39 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 01 Apr 2008 12:43:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp021) with SMTP; 01 Apr 2008 14:43:37 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+WqV077ISWUdErMSqFSrjiZou9JXxQ4oaCnoS1UG 4hHhdxJdDpqBW1 X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LSU 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Dear Git list, after having talked for so long about a company selling and supporting Git, I finally broke down, sat down with the lawyers, and set up the company Git Ltd, based in UK. The purpose is to market, sell and support Git for as many customers as we can get. As a first step, we will sell Git in shrink-wrap boxes starting tomorrow. Of course, this means that all of Git's source code will be closed, because we have to sustain our business model _somehow_. Sorry to all of you guys who do not agree with that. Just to make sure that the Open Source community is okay with this, I contacted Richard Stallman, and this is what he told me: If you really have a company marketing Git, that is cool, and I fully understand that the only option to keep this a viable business is to go closed source. It would also be best to move the headquarters to Pyongyang. Graced by those words, Sir Howard Stringer has kindly agreed to take the position of the chair of the board, and Courtenay Valenti will be our CEO. As a consequence, there will be slight changes to Git: for one, the database format will change so that we can protect our valuable Intellectual Property, and all the exporters will stop to work. This is a great day for source code management, and I hope you all will enjoy it. Johannes "Dscho" Schindelin Chief Fool Officer Git Ltd UK