On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Paul Everitt wrote:
Repugnancy aside :^) your second comment is on the mark. It isn't so much that you need to assign and "lose" ownership. Rather, the committer needs to ensure that they aren't violating your rights.
We'll probably work up some boilerplate such as, "I'm going to commit your patch to Zope. It's going to be available under the ZPL and the joint ownership model of the Zope Contributor Agreement. Please respond agreeing that you understand the ZPL, the joint ownership model, and allow this contribution under these terms."
How does that sound?
Sounds like a workable process, if an email acknowledgement is enough. Perhaps you could also make some such language part of a click through during the process of submitting a patch to the server? I think for myself just labeling things as public domain will work fine, but I know that won't work for everyone. --RDM