Miro formalises Mambo copyright transfer

Posted by VISITOR on Dec 21, 2005 5:03 AM EDT
ZDNet Australia; By Renai LeMay
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Melbourne software company Miro says it has delivered on its August promise to assign the intellectual property inherent in its open source Mambo content management system (CMS) to the non-profit body it created to administer the application.

The move is the culmination of a standoff between Miro and a team of volunteer coders earlier this year. The volunteers -- who have since forked the Mambo code to create the open source Joomla project -- had objected to Miro's decision not to transfer rights to the Mambo CMS to the newly created non-profit Mambo Foundation.

Miro's August reversal of that decision appears to have come to fruition, with the company saying as of today all rights had been legally transferred.

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