-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/18/2012 03:46 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Jens Vagelpohl <j...@dataflake.org> > wrote: >> >> The contributor agreement requires you as the contributor to be able >> to enter into the contract with the Zope Foundation transferring one >> half ownership to the Zope Foundation. You can only enter into this >> contract if you own (as in "wrote") the code yourself - you cannot >> assign ownership to someone else for something you don't fully own. >> >> The goal of these contractual requirements is to make sure software >> stored in the Zope Foundation is as "clean" as possible from an >> ownership standpoint. People who use code from svn.zope.org have a >> reasonable assurance that no third party will show up on your >> doorstep demanding money or license fees for code that third party >> claims to own. >> >> I've just recently seen what can happen for projects not following >> this kind of strict policy: The python-ldap package developers are >> unable to e.g. assign a new license to their code because since they >> don't hold any ownership and would need to ask every single >> developer who ever touched that code - an impossible task. For us >> that kind of issue does not arise. > > Yes, but my question is why this changes with github.
Because the ability to check into svn.zope.org is based on a "chain of custody" managed by the ZF (web account, verified e-mail address, and SSH key). J. Random Hacker's account on Github has no such chain. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlAwAwgACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ7/wwCgpdrjdb1ER6P7FS3lqO91FlwO ucQAnRpbKzABEIXDrDg5vsgJcCxz7DNX =0tGk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
