[Zope-CMF] Re: [dev] CMF 1.5 roadmap?

Tres Seaver tseaver at zope.com
Wed Feb 25 12:57:50 EST 2004


Stefane Fermigier wrote:
> Tres Seaver wrote:
>> Stefane, I am not sure I understand you.  Are you claiming the right 
>> to block relicesnsing of AT under the ZPL if the AT team accept your 
>> changes?  I would assume that your changes would then be substantive 
>> enough to create "copyrightbale interest" in the derived work. 
> 
> 
> I'm talking about code merged from NuxDocument, or substantive changes, 
> of course.

OK, cool.

>> Does Nuxeo have a policy of not contributing bugfixes or enhancements 
>> to ZPL-licenced code?  I certainly was not under that impression;  in 
>> fact I don't believe that such a position is consistent with the 
>> current fact that Nuxeo employees have Zope.org CVS access.
> 
> Of course not. As registered zope.org CVS commiters, Florent, Lennart 
> and I have all signed the agreement to release our enhancements under 
> the ZPL, and that policy is of course accepted by Nuxeo.
> 
> But it was not clear, before I stumbled onto this thread, that AT would 
> be merged into the CMF. If AT gets into the CMF (but I strongly feel, 
> from my first contact with the code, that some refactoring would be 
> necessary before that happens), we already agree to licence under the 
> ZPE whatever code we might have contributed (or forked) at this time.
> 
> Hope that's clearer now.

Oui, merci beaucoup!  The notion of moving some of the "infrastructure" 
parts of Plone "down" into the CMF has been discussed on and off for 
quite a while;  at the moment, I am not sure which bits are the right 
ones for a near-term CMF 1.5 release.  One of those under discussion was 
the PortalTransforms tool, which I believe is where you came in.

Tres.
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