[Educational] Contributor's agreements, project vs foundation, licensing, and apple pie

[Melody Winkle]

If the project can own the code that sounds good to me.  I did bring this up 
with Jon Stahl, and his first thought was that the Plone Foundation probably 
wouldn't want to own the project code.  But if we did want to go that 
direction, we could ask the board if it would be possible.  He did highly 
encourage GPL 2 for licensing, saying that if any plone4edu products import any 
core Plone code, that product would need to be GPL 2. So it would be simpler to 
just use the same license.

I'm inclined to ask Bob Morgan about the plone4edu project owning the code and 
see if that rings any alarms.  He said it'd be fine to ask him questions, 
(although we'll need plone4edu people to drive it).

-Melody

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Kurt Bendl wrote:

> The impression I got from the person at the Software Freedom Law Center
> was that the "Project" would own the code, no particular official or
> unofficial corporation. Now, I'm personally happy with the idea of a 501c3
> corporation. Setting one up is a hassle, from what everyone tells me.
> However, if some institution is willing to pony up the legal expertise,
> I'm all for it. I'm personally leaning on the legal geeks at UofL
> for their input, and am going to ask them if they're willing to do the work
> if we (that's you and me and all of us who are interested and involved)
> come to a decision we want to incorporate, setup a board and bylaws,
> and show up at meetings (I nominate everyone else as chair, secretary,
> and members!)
> 
> I'm also more inclined to go GPL. since that's what
> Plone uses, and GPL is already proven dependable. (There's also
> a lot of traffic and noise about GPL 3, and so far I tend to lean
> toward 2 based on the conversations I've been reading. But I can
> be convinced otherwise with a good argument and/or beer.)
> 
> Question to Melody (and other WU-ers):
> There's a guy here at UofL in our with our institutional property
> unit, Matthew Hawthorne, who seems really eager to work with us,
> and he says he knows people at WU.  Do you think it would be
> prudent to get he and Bob Morgan together to talk?
> 
> And, what says the Penn State contingent? (You guys rule!)
> Your legal beagles have been working on stuff like this, too.
>