[Zope-dev] We need to change how code ownership works.

[Lennart Regebro]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Hanno Schlichting <hanno at hannosch.eu> wrote:
> The Plone Foundation adopted a policy for this, see http://plone.org/foundation/materials/foundation-resolutions/patch-policy-052011
>
> As we don't have any terms of service stating so for any of our issue trackers, we don't get any copyright assignments for reported bugs or proposed patches. Patches can be sent we private email, posted to bug trackers, on paste.org like services or sent via pull requests. All of those are legally the same and it's the responsibility of the person doing the checkin to validate the copyright situation. That said a lot of patches don't actually contain any creative work that falls under the copyright rules. This last point is the reason most projects aren't very strict about this issue.

I Am Not A Lawyer, but this sounds reasonable, and if it's good enough
for the Plone foundation, it's good enough for me. :-)

//Lennart