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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 05, 2004 12:57 AM
""Developing a policy, obtaining copyright assignment, and introducing terms and conditions are all steps in the right direction to ensuring that the code contributed is the author's own work and is free from encumbrances," Lamont said. "Miro has introduced copyright assignment in Mambo to ensure that the code does not infringe anyone's rights and is an entire singular copyright work."

Or in the words of one of Mambo's leading developers, "There have been many cases where [Mambo] developers seem to have breached the GPL, for instance, and the community has lashed out without forethought."

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