[ZWeb] Zope.org and New zope.org status
Guido van Rossum
guido@python.org
Sun, 12 Jan 2003 13:14:35 -0500
[Paul]
> >>BTW, quick point on the last part. The reason it was put in its own
> >>CVS repository at cvs.zope.org was to allow contributors that didn't
> >>execute a contributor agreement. Thus, this hasn't been subject
> >>(IIRC) to the ZPL.
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > That's not my understanding. Do you have documentation for this? My
> > understanding is that you need to sign an *additional* document (an
> > NDA) before you can work on NZO, due to the sensitive nature of the
> > data.
[Paul]
> Nope, I've never seen it. Olivier certainly never signed one, and he
> did the skin. I've never seen an announcement of it.
>
> I can understand the privacy thing. However, there's no need to put any
> barriers on zope.org to get the whole ZC-joint-ownership thing going.
> This isn't core Zope software that is being developed. This is an
> application of Zope. That was the conclusion that was reached when the
> separate repository was setup last year (in between the transition from
> Tres' effort to my effort).
>
> Here's the announcement from a year ago:
>
> http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-web/2002-January/000965.html
Thanks. ZC's position on this may have changed; I'll check.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)