[Zope3-dev] Re: [Checkins] SVN: lovely.rating/ Initial import from Lovely Systems repository

Benji York benji at zope.com
Wed Aug 16 08:58:18 EDT 2006


Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
> --On 16. August 2006 08:36:55 -0400 Benji York <benji at zope.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Jodok Batlogg wrote:
>>
>>>Log message for revision 69426:
>>>  Initial import from Lovely Systems repository
>>>
>>>Changed:
>>>  A   lovely.rating/
>>
>>This package appears to depend on GPLed software (schooltool,
>>specifically:
>>http://svn.zope.org/lovely.rating/trunk/src/lovely/rating/interfaces.py?r
>>ev=69429&view=markup)
>>
>>I'm not sure it's appropriate to put it in the zope.org repo.
> 
> 
> huh? The contributor agreement says nothing about external dependencies. As 
> look as the checked-in code is ZPL, your software can depend on any other 
> external package (independent of its license).

This is technically true, but there are a couple of issues.  First, 
because this code depends on a GPLed component, so it not useful to 
people who require their projects to be ZPL.  Second, it is a departure 
from the status quo, such decisions should be made by the ZF.
-- 
Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation


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