[ZF] manuel access

[Tres Seaver]

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On 02/20/2013 10:55 AM, Jim Fulton wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com>
> wrote:
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>> On 02/20/2013 09:49 AM, Benji York wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Chris Withers 
>>> <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> On 20/02/2013 14:18, Jim Fulton wrote:
>>>>> I think there should be a process for moving projects out of
>>>>> the ZF.
>>>> 
>>>> For this one, can I suggest the following lightweight process:
>>>> 
>>>> Benji forks from the zopefoundation repo on GitHub.
>>>> 
>>>> Someone from Zope Foundation (Stefan?) then does a commit in
>>>> the zopefoundation GitHub repo that deletes all files on master
>>>> and replaces with a README.txt pointing to Benji's fork.
>>>> 
>>>> Work then happens in Benji's repo going forward, and he controls
>>>> who has access to what.
>>> 
>>> That sounds like a reasonable plan that, as far as I can tell, 
>>> accounts for the legalities involved.  I.e., the ZF has the code
>>> but doesn't want it any more and I "fork" the project and
>>> continue development.
>> 
>> Go ahead with the fork.  We will vote to approve the separation at 
>> Thursday's board meeting.
> 
> Is approval required?  I don't think the ZF can prevent forks, given
> the ZPL.
> 
> OTOH, Jen's raised some valid concerns last August about the 
> representation of the ZF's interest in forks.  I'd like to see this
> clarified.

I meant to have the board approve the removal of the code, not the fork.
 Since the code was checked in under a contributor agreement, the
Foundation has joint ownership of the copyright:  effectively, we will be
abandoning that interest.


Tres.
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