+-------[ Philipp von Weitershausen ]---------------------- | | > | * putting a project/package under the wings of the ZF ensures long-term | > | IP protection | > | > How? I think my death + 70 years is further away than the death of ZF, or in | > fact the death of Zope. | | But the end of your commitment to this particular software and/or Zope | might not be so far. Hunting developers down for getting their approval | of a license change or something like that after 5 years or so would be | a considerable pain.
One wonders, why you NEED to change the license of someone else's code. You take some Open Source code. You put it in your repository where you can work on it. You don't need to own it to work on it. You don't need to own it to package it up. You don't need to own it to put it into svn. This is of course a distraction from the main question about the repository, not the who owns what and why, which has been beaten to death in a hundred other discussions. | > Requiring IP Handover? Makes a mockery of the Open Source movement. | | Plone does it, ASF does it, FSF does it. Seems to work. The proposal currently requires 3rd party code to be handed over to Zope Foundation[1] AND checked into the ZF svn repository in order to be 'certified'. You indicated this was indeed the case. So in order to gain ANY level of certification, even "Listed" Zope Foundation has to own the code. If Zope Foundation actually owns the code it's no longer 3rd party code is it? It is therefore impossible for anyone outside of Zope Foundation to actually gain certification. Gaining certification is pointless (to an author), since making changes to code that's not in the zope svn repository, would obviously have to void the certification (being in the zope svn repository is a necessary, (but not sufficient) part of being certified). So once again, I think another kind of compliance programme would be far more beneficial for the majority of Zope Users. Once again this could to a certain level be achieved by having packaging tools to ensure that ANY code released WOULD be able to gain at least LISTED level IF they had given it to ZF AND checked it into the repository. Yes like a .jar file (OK we all know they're zip files with some fluff, that doesn't make them bad). [1] Let's just assume Zope Foundation for the purposes of this discussion. -- Andrew Milton [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )