[Zope-dev] Repository cleanup: ZVSL licensed files?

Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Tue Apr 19 09:29:36 EDT 2011


On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Jens Vagelpohl <jens at dataflake.org> wrote:
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> On 4/19/11 15:19 , Jim Fulton wrote:
>> 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,
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>>>> 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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>>> 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?
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> Hi Jim,
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> It just lists them as part of the weekly repository policy check that
> flows into the automated test summary email.

OK.  I normally don't read that mail.  I'll check in a week or so and
if I see the list,
I'll clean them up.

Jim

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