I'm happy to announce that Bazaar is now officially a GNU
project.
This decision was taken after consultation with some of the
core
Bazaar developers, Canonical management, and Richard
Stallman, leader
of the GNU project.
If we can help other GNU projects, by extending Bazaar to
meet their
needs or in other ways we will. Over time we will come
into more
compliance with the GNU technical and process standards, by
sending
patches through the regular review process. Our review
process, and
licence will remain the same, and copyright will still be
held by
Canonical under the current agreement with contributors.
Bazaar is already supported on savanah.gnu.org, the Free
Software
Foundation's project hosting server, as well as on
Canonical's
Launchpad.net development nexus.
Canonical is delighted by the GNU project's decision and
remains as
engaged as ever in the Bazaar project. We think Bazaar is a
great
tool, we like using it for many of our projects, including
Launchpad
and Ubuntu. Andrew, Ian, John,
Robert and myself will still be actively working on
developing Bazaar,
and indeed meeting next week with some of our most active
co-developers in bond.
--
Martin
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