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

Alexander Limi limi at plone.org
Wed Nov 28 20:00:02 EST 2007


On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:52:01 -0800, Philipp von Weitershausen  
<philipp at weitershausen.de> wrote:

> 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.

That's correct from a legal point of view. Which is why code in the  
Collective is a separate repository and isn't covered by the contributor  
agreement in our particular case.

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