[ZF] Repository choice: Please indicate your preference until Sunday 9/23

[Jens Vagelpohl]

On Sep 19, 2012, at 1:46 , Chris McDonough <chrism at plope.com> wrote:

> The contributor agreement Zope Foundation currently has no explicit
> policy like Plone's, however.  It currently asserts "Committer
> represents and warrants that the Committed Code does not violate the
> rights of any person or entity, and that the Committer has legal
> authority to enter into this Agreement and legal authority over
> Contributed Code.  Further, Committer indemnifies Zope Foundation
> against violations."  So it is, and has always been the committer's
> responsibility to judge whether all code he commits he has "legal
> authority" over.  Whatever that means.

A contributor must have legal authority to perform the act of ownership assignment described in paragraph four of the contributor agreement:

"""
<…> you agree to assign, and hereby do assign, a one-half interest of all right, title and interest in and to copyright and other intellectual property rights with respect to your new and original portions of the Contribution to the Zope Foundation <…>
"""

To assign any ownership the assigner has to have ownership rights first. That's what's meant by "legal authority".

jens