Re: We need to change how code ownership works.

Lennart Regebro <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.devel
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Leonardo Rochael Almeida
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Lennart Regebro <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:28 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> This approach protects from:
>>> - legal risks posed by github
>>
>> Such as?
>
> I'll let Jean-Paul elaborate, but I suppose it could be something
> along the lines of GitHub suddenly disappearing with (some of) your
> content (code, forum posts, metadata like group associations)

We need backups, yes.

> making some other unwanted use of it, and you having no legal recourse
> because of some small print in some EULA somewhere that someone didn't
> bother to fully read.

I have absolutely no idea what kind of legal but unwanted use that
could be, except spamming email addresses of course.

> The point is not that these can't happen to ZF repos, but that ZF
> would have no recourse to fix the issue except to wait on GitHub to
> act on it.

OK, that's the first good argument I have heard.

//Lennart
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