[Zope-dev] [Checkins] SVN: zc.buildout/ Moved to github

[Robert Niederreiter]

On 19.08.2012 10:30, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
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> On Aug 19, 2012, at 10:17 , Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> And since it becomes ever easier to accept code from unknown sources (e.g. pull requests) legal code ownership becomes an issue again.
>>
>> And that returns me to my first question: Is it really legally
>> different for a contributor to accept a pull request from a
>> non-contributor compared with a contributor merging a patch from a
>> non-contributor?
>
> Legally, both are disallowed unless there's some proof (written statement etc) from the code author that he assigns ownership of the patch or the contents of that pull request to the contributor who is doing the checkin.
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> In the past we haven't done a good job of enforcing this clear ownership assignment chain. There are always code patches from non-contributors in the bug tracker that may make it into the code base with the help of a contributor. There's a grey area: Is the act of submitting a patch into the Zope bug tracker enough to signal "I am giving you ownership of this code"? I am not sure.
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> GitHub makes this pulling in of "outside" code even easier. I'm afraid it will become even harder to really maintain this chain of custody.

I just wonder why this works then for other projects like plone or 
pyramid which basically follows similar rules as the ZF with a signed 
contributor agreement required in order to make core contributions.

http://plone.org/foundation/contributors-agreement/agreement.pdf/view

https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/blob/master/CONTRIBUTORS.txt

btw - pyramid seem to have a very pragmatic approach for the signing 
process ;)

Either way - SVN or GIT - it is just a question IF merging code from a 
non-contributor is done BY a contributor, not HOW.

For me the discussion sounds a little like a general denial against 
github using the legal story as rationale.

robert

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