[Zope-dev] Repository cleanup: ZVSL licensed files?
Michael Howitz
mh at gocept.com
Tue Apr 19 09:23:21 EDT 2011
Am 19.04.2011 um 15:19 schrieb Jim Fulton:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:39 AM, Jens Vagelpohl <jens at dataflake.org> wrote:
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>> On 4/19/11 08:52 , Michael Howitz wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> while making projects in SVN complying to the repository policy I found files which tell that their license is "Zope Visible Source License, Version 1.0 (ZVSL)".
>>> Is this license a valid license in the zope.org repository?
>>> If not I'd like to merge the following change in zope.repositorypolicy:
>>> http://svn.zope.org/?rev=121436&view=rev
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>> +1
>>
>> The ZVSL is a Zope Corporation-specific license that does not meet the
>> requirements for projects hosted by the Zope Foundation. I am surprised
>> you found any files with that license. Those should be in Zope
>> Corporation-owned repositories, or they should be relicensed if ZC agrees.
>
> Sorry our (probably my) bad. Those should have been fixed when we
> moved them from our repo to the zope.org repo.
>
> Does the patch fix the files? Or just list them?
Currently it only lists them. I think there are not so many packages, so it might be easier to fix them manually.
Yours sincerely,
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