On May 9, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Peter E Higgins wrote:

> Alex Russell wrote:
>> To clarify:
>>
>>    * you MUST send in a CLA for any contributions hosted on Dojo
>> Foundation servers. No exceptions. Ever.
>>

I thought about putting in the obligitory asterisk here, but thought  
better of it. I should have.

> Please excuse my ignorance, but things like dojox.encoding.md5/sha1
> (BSD) don't appear to be under CLA?  We have several BSD-released
> products  we ship  with the Dojo Toolkit w/ proper attribution, though
> this seems like an exception?  Not trying
> to "start" anything, but would you mind to clarify the difference?

The policy is here:

	http://dojotoolkit.org/book/dojo-book-0-4/part-9-dojo-community/intellectual-property-policies

Compatible stuff is added via a nod from the project lead and a  
LICENSE file. That said, we're pretty clear about doing our best not  
to do that too often.

>> If we think that there should be a separate repo someplace, lets pool
>> our money and lease a server somewhere else, not under the
>> Foundation's umbrella, and make a new project to host modules there.
>> I'm totally for that. But we can't do that at the Foundation.
>>
> no need to pool money, the host has been donated already.  Just  
> waiting
> for it to be finalized, and then begin the chore of setting up svn /
> auth / etc. perhaps I/we can recruit dustin for some initial setup  
> work,
> as he's just gone to lengths to get such a thing setup.

W00t. Sounds like a great plan.

Regards

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