ZDNet Australia: Miro Backflips on Mambo Copyright

"Melbourne software company Miro will assign the intellectual property inherent in its open source Mambo content management system to the non-profit organisation it created to administer the application, despite earlier avowals not to do so.

"The move is the latest in an ongoing controversy which has seen the 19-member strong volunteer team developing the CMS withdraw their support from the project. The developers objected to some of the terms under which the non-profit Mambo Foundation was created, among them the fact that intellectual property rights would not be transferred..."

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