[Cctools-cchost] Shifting Sands

[Victor S. <vic...@gm...>]

CC announced today that they are transferring the operation of
ccMIxter (and ccHost) to ArtisTech Media.

Creative Commons will retain ownership of ccHost and ATM has agreed to
maintain that code which means: fix bugs that its users encounter and
continue the current release schedule of roughly once a year.

All code has a purpose. For ccHost, that is to be a general purpose,
all-media, content management system focused on non-profit uses that
promotes the spread of CC licenses.

Meanwhile, ccMixter is now, officially, a music-only site that is
being taken over by a decidedly for-profit company. Therefore, ATM is
going to fork ccHost so that the operations of the site are not
encumbered by the historical goals of ccHost. This ccMixter fork will
continue to be completely open source under GPL 2.0 and all changes in
the fork that make sense for the main code tree will be ported back.

ATM has offered to keep me on as Director of ccMixter and I've got to
figure out exactly what the means. If I do end up at ATM full time,
that means I'll paying a whole lot more attention to ATM's needs and
only sporadically helping out with ccHost stuff.

Peace,
VS