[tahoe-dev] Test with Live Distribution Re: introducing Least Authority Enterprises

[rvny at mail.ru]

Hello!
How I can test this features? May I can probe in small size? Possible 100 Mb or small?
When it's work good, I can include preconfigured scripts to live distribution with Tahoe-Lafs, builded in SuseStudio


http://code.google.com/p/tahoe-lafs/
Renat


25 января 2012, 11:18 от Zooko Wilcox-OHearn <zooko at leastauthority.com>:
> Dear people of the tahoe-dev mailing list:
> 
> David-Sarah Hopwood, Zancas Wilcox, and I are working on a startup to
> commercialize Tahoe-LAFS, named "Least Authority Enterprises".
> 
> https://leastauthority.com
> 
> We're simply selling Tahoe-LAFS storage service backed on Amazon S3.
> "Tahoe-LAFS storage service" means, of course, storage of your
> ciphertext. Neither your plaintext nor your keys ever get anywhere
> near us.
> 
> Since this, as far as I remember, the first time I've mentioned Least
> Authority Enterprises on this mailing list, let me quickly state a few
> things about governance, intellectual property, and our relationship
> to the open source project:
> 
> * We employ myself, David-Sarah Hopwood and Zancas Wilcox. We don't
> employ any of the other major contributors to the Tahoe-LAFS project
> so far. I am the CEO of Least Authority Enterprises.
> 
> * So far, we contribute all of the Tahoe-LAFS code we write to the
> Tahoe-LAFS project under the terms of its open source licences. This
> is the best thing to do for our customers, because it is good for the
> quality of our code, it allows the customers to have a thorough
> understanding of what happens to their ciphertext on the backend, and
> it gives our customers the best chance of continuity and support (even
> if our company were to go out of business).
> 
> * The non-profit Tahoe-LAFS Software Foundation (Peter Secor,
> President and Treasurer) holds the rights to relicense the Tahoe-LAFS
> source code under different licensing terms. Whenever new contributors
> offer substantial patches to Tahoe-LAFS, the developers ask them if
> they would agree to give the Tahoe-LAFS Software Foundation the right
> to relicense their contributions under terms of its choice, and so far
> they've always unhesitatingly agreed. Least Authority Enterprises
> doesn't own any special privileges to the Tahoe-LAFS source code -- we
> at the company don't have any rights to do anything with it that you
> don't also have.
> 
> * In the future, when LAE creates some new derived work of Tahoe-LAFS,
> we might exercise the right to withhold the source code of our derived
> work for up to 12 months. This is the same right that you, and
> everyone, also has, under the terms of the Transitive Grace Period
> Public Licence:
> https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/docs/about.rst .
> We're not currently planning on doing that, but we could change our
> minds.
> 
> * We haven't applied for any patents. We're not planning to. We could
> change our minds. If we ever offer any contributions to the Tahoe-LAFS
> project which are covered by any patent that we've applied for then as
> employees of Least Authority Enterprises we'll make that clear to the
> other developers and to you, the community of users. (Also, as members
> of the open source community, we wouldn't accept such contributions,
> unless possibly if there were some sort of licence which permitted all
> users of the open source software to exercise the patent freely or
> something.)
> 
> * We welcome feedback from the community on our technology and
> business decisions. For anything topical to Tahoe-LAFS itself, you can
> post to this list and we'll reply, or for private matters you can
> write to zooko at leastauthority.com or to info at leastauthority.com.
> 
> * The in-development versions of our work are available to the public
> under the open source licences even before they are accepted into
> Tahoe-LAFS trunk, for example here:
> https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1569 . Patches and
> code-review welcome!
> 
> * The service itself is currently open to all customers who are
> willing to alpha-test it. Just sign up on the web site and be prepared
> to tolerate a few rough edges and to chat with us about how you like
> it, what you use it for, and what you want out of future versions of
> the product. The price is $1.00/GB/month. You pay only for what you
> use. (Discounts are available for full-time students, educational
> institutions, libraries, non-profits, and open source projects.)
> 
> Thank you very much! I'm excited about having "hitched our wagon" to
> the Tahoe-LAFS project, both because of its technical excellence and
> because of the vibrant open source community around it. Thank you for
> being part of that!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
> 
> CEO, Least Authority Enterprises
> 
> https://leastauthority.com
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