Am 10.03.2009 um 09:14 schrieb Raphael Ritz: > If there would be a strong preference from the CMF community > here I'm sure this would be honored in our discussion. > > Opinions anyone? (ideally including a reasoning beyond > "I want ZPL because that's what Zope itself uses") ;-)
Actually that is itself a very valid opinion - any company that is interested in software licences prefers as few of them as possible. My preference is always for a no-strings attached licence (ZPL, modifieid BSD, Apache). It's nice to hear that there is some discussion within Plone about licensing. If there is framework code in Plone that might be better placed lower down the stack in CMF then the sooner the better. There is a heap of stuff that could do with refactoring and reengineering along component architecture principles. It is not a little ironic in an open source context that the next release of Plone "requires" a new release of CMF to which it itself has (hardly?) contributed. This may often be unintentional as Plone developers write libraries for Plone unaware of the problem of backwards licence incompatability - the wrapper for z3c.forms springs to mind - but it is a problem just the same. Concentrating on a content management framework for Zope as the basis for Plone and other approaches is a good thing IMHO. Charlie -- Charlie Clark Helmholtzstr. 20 Düsseldorf D- 40215 Tel: +49-211-938-5360 GSM: +49-178-782-6226 _______________________________________________ Zope-CMF maillist - Zope-CMF@lists.zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-cmf See https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope-cmf/ for bug reports and feature requests