[Zope-dev] Re: Frustrated with Python and Frameworks. Zope, Grok, , Django, CherryPy

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Tres Seaver wrote:
> Martijn Faassen wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> On Nov 28, 2007 12:16 AM, Martijn Jacobs <martijn-r20ZR6Wpu0Qq0XJkksQ3qw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>> We could also consider putting them in some kind
>>>>  of collective-like SVN repository so that people can
>>>> make changes when they need to.
>>> I think this is a great idea as it works with the Plone collective this
>>> way as well.
>> Just to make it utterly clear: this stuff won't happen by itself. We
>> need a bunch of self-driven volunteers to do this work: look up
>> the relevant codebases, contact their authors, check them into a SVN
>> if they look orphaned (if they aren't of course don't fork them!) and
>> make an index page describing what is going on. This can be done
>> independently from zope.org, and should later become part of the
>> zope.org website.
>>
>> You will need a SVN repository somewhere. svn.zope.org could be used
>> if you have committer access, but it would
>> be somewhat restricted as GPL-ed products can't be placed in there.
>> Anyway, all these questions I'm thinking of now someone else should
>> take the lead on, as it won't be me. :)
> 
> For clarity, nobody but a ZC employee (at present) is supposed to be
> checking in any code with any license other than the ZPL;  in the
> future, such a checkin will need to be approved by some agent / organ of
> the Zope Foundation.

It's actually even more restrictive than that: If I read paragraph 5 of 
the contributor agreement [1] right, then whoever checks things in must 
have the intellectual property over the code, otherwise s/he would not 
be able to donate half of it to ZC. So effectively you can't check in 
somebody else's code, even if it's covered by the ZPL.


[1] http://www.zope.org/DevHome/CVS/Contributor.pdf