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Mambo Foundation Gets Copyright, After All

Posted by Hemos on from the further-updates-as-events-warrant dept.

daria42 writes "Responding to the concerns of developers and backflipping on a previous policy in the process, Miro, the commercial company which owns the copyright to the GPL'd Mambo content management system has decided to assign all intellectual property rights to the Mambo Foundation, which it created to manage the CMS. The company has been at the centre of a storm of controversy previously reported here on Slashdot, which has seen the core developers of the CMS fork the project."

3 of 98 comments (clear)

  1. Question by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 1, Funny

    Altho I'm glad with the decision and appraise Miro for doing this, I wonder: would they have done this if the developers hadn't decided to split from the project?

  2. Expression nazi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...backflipping on a previous policy...

    After a backflip you still face the same direction.

  3. Re:Except the devs specifically say this isn't a f by VonSlatt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Our branch isn't the fork! the other branch is the fork!

    While I tend to agree with the sentiment, yah can't claim it's not a fork if the end result is two development trees.

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    The Steampunk Workshop