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When developers give source code back to the Plone community, will the Plone Foundation at a later point then include this code in a future commercial release of Plone?

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When developers give source code back to the Plone community, will the Plone Foundation at a later point then include this code in a future commercial release of Plone?

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If it’s checked into the Plone SVN (not the Collective) as a change to Plone itself, both the Plone Foundation and that developer has full rights to that piece of code. So if Plone Foundation licenses Plone under a commercial license, that code will be part of the package.