* Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010905 16:21]: > I continue to feel that this license is dangerously vague, and I > reiterate my offer to work with the Zope Corporation, or Digital > Creations, or whoever is in charge of it to clean it up, if Gregor is > agreeable to that proposal. Since it's his package I think it's only > correct if I regard him as the proper liaison with upstream.
Zope Corporation is the company formerly known as Digital Creations, they're the copyright holders of Zope and ZPL. During the last years, I had several discussions with them over the license. From several sources I learned that they planned to modify the license of Zope, either to some completely different, well-known free license, or to a new version of the ZPL with major modifications. ZPL 1.1 seems to be an interim version in order to reflect their name change. A few months ago, there were long and enduring discussions of the ZPL (primarily wrt. GPL compatibility) on the Zope mailing lists, and IIRC, they also hit the Debian lists. As I alread said, I tried to moderate a contact between RMS and the people in charge at DC. I haven't get any reaction to that, though. Branden, if you're willing to lobby ZC into cleaning up the ZPL, you're very welcome. If you can wait for one or two days, I might send you copies of the discussions that I had on that topic. I'm simply lacking the time to work with them currently. As a preparation, please feel free to consult the archives of [email protected], debian-legal and debian-python for traces of the ZPL license discussions. Gregor
