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

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

sorry, meant to CC zope at zope.org, not zope-dev at zope.org


Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Tres Seaver wrote:
>> Martijn Faassen wrote:
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> On Nov 28, 2007 12:16 AM, Martijn Jacobs 
>>> <martijn at fourdigits.nl> 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
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