Hello Simon,

Saturday, June 21, 2003, 8:29:56 PM, you wrote:

SF> Hi, what's the news on getting moved to sourceforge ?, I have a couple
SF> of ideas i want to work on soon, and it'd make sense to get back to a
SF> single code base first.

Better late than never, I'll state my opinion on this.

As a matter of fact, since June 16th, I work for IntelliJ Labs
( http://www.intellij.com ). The work I'm doing there (basically, UI
development in C#) is very much similar to the work I was doing on
Syndirella. Moreover, the product we're working on will include RSS
reading functionality, and most likely I'll be the one responsible for
designing and implementing it.

Thus, it is almost certain that I'll never even look at the Syndirella
code anymore. One reason for that is IP/licensing - we want to be
sure that our product is not a derivative work of Syndirella, and so I
want to "forget" the Syndirella code as much as possible. And even if
it were possible to settle the licensing issues (I could re-license my
own Syndirella code to my employer under the conditions that I'd like
to, and we could come to some agreement with other contributors), it
is simply not interesting for me to do something at work and to do
very similar things at home on my own time.

However, Syndirella is a GPLed project, and I want it to live. Thus,
I'd be happy if the official development branch was moved to
SourceForge. As soon as the new Syndirella homepage is created (and
the www.syndirella.net domain is redirected to it), I'll give a
pointer to that from the page at yole.ru and from my weblog. My main
requirement for future Syndirella development is that yole@...
should NOT be listed as the main contact address for it, and that
exception reports should NOT be sent to that e-mail.

Another problem is that Syndirella uses the UtilityLibrary control
library, which is not open-source. I do have the source code to it,
but I don't have the permission to redistribute it. This library has
been a source of many problems to me, so it would be best to create
an open-source replacement for that.

--
Best regards,
Dmitry mailto:yole@...