[Zope-Coders] copyright question

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Martijn Faassen writes:
 > I'm in the process of donating ParsedXML's domapi unit tests to 
 > pyxml so that they can be used for unit testing of other DOMs as well.
...
 > When looking at the code I suddenly noticed the ZPL license tacked onto
 > all files, and I sort of wondered on how to proceed. Of course this in
 > part depends on what PyXML wants, though I expect they'll be okay with the

  My own inclination is for the test suite to be a separate package
from both ParsedXML and PyXML.  I'd love to see it find a home on
SourceForge to make it easier to allow others to contribute without
being part of the Zope community or the PyXML group.  This would make
it easier to simply keep the ZPL (though hopefully not require a copy
of the ZPL in every file!).  I don't know how this would need to be
done; perhaps the test suite could be transferred to the PSF?
  At any rate, I think it would require a strong statement from Zope
Corp management that this is acceptable before this could actually
happen.

 > ZPL. And since the ZPL allows this, it's not a problem from the Zope side
 > either. But some of these files have license version 1.0, and I believe
 > the ZPL is now up to 1.1. Can I update the licenses to 1.1? Is there
 > any official procedure for this? Do I just paste in the new license and
 > check in, or what?

  I don't know what the differences are between 1.0 and 1.1 are, so I
can't answer about that.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
PythonLabs at Zope Corporation