[Zope] Re: Frustrated with Python and Frameworks. Zope, Grok, , Django, CherryPy

Martijn Faassen faassen at startifact.com
Thu Nov 29 07:25:39 EST 2007


Hey,

On Nov 29, 2007 12:53 AM, Philipp von Weitershausen
<philipp at weitershausen.de> wrote:
> Tres Seaver wrote:
[snip]
> > For clarity, nobody but a ZC employee (at present) is supposed to be
> > checking in any code with any license other than the ZPL;  in the
> > future, such a checkin will need to be approved by some agent / organ of
> > the Zope Foundation.
>
> It's actually even more restrictive than that: If I read paragraph 5 of
> the contributor agreement [1] right, then whoever checks things in must
> have the intellectual property over the code, otherwise s/he would not
> be able to donate half of it to ZC. So effectively you can't check in
> somebody else's code, even if it's covered by the ZPL.

All right. Good point too! The svn.zope.org repository doesn't sound
like a good place then for this project. If anyone wants to pick this
project
up, we should arrange something else. I'm sure that's quite doable, however.

Regards,

Martijn


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