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ZDNet Australia: Miro Backflips on Mambo Copyright

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 22, 2005

“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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