Why do I have to execute a Zimbra Contributor Agreement to share code with the Zimbra Community?
The Zimbra Contributor Agreement is more restrictive than the sharing model embodied within open source licenses or licenses like our Yahoo! Public License (YPL). We believe such a contribution agreement is to assure the ultimate end-users of Zimbra software that the intellectual property (IP) upon which their deployments are based is “squeaky clean”-that is, that it is unencumbered by any IP rights that are hidden from the Zimbra Community, and might thereby hinder broad adoption. (The Zimbra Contribution Agreement also best ensures that we have the flexibility to offer future releases of Zimbra technologies under an alternative licensing model that might someday be deemed to better meet community needs.
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