Open Stack

Not sure what is meant by legal deed but if it is not the same a list of
the term differences between ASF and OpenStack CLA's would seem useful.







From:	Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org>
To:	Richard Fontana <rfontana at redhat.com>, Thierry Carrez
            <thierry at openstack.org>,
Cc:	legal-discuss at lists.openstack.org
Date:	04/23/2014 09:47 AM
Subject:	Re: [legal-discuss] Trivial contributions and CLAs



I'd like to re-frame the conversation on the practical effects that the
current processes have on new contributors and work towards solutions.
The problem is:

One of the Foundation's objective is to help gain contributions from
operators; current processes for contributing to OpenStack seem to be
harming this objective.

So far we have a proposal to

 - write a 'legal deed' for the CLA
 - keep a handy reassuring message to people 'afraid' of CLA's legalese

I also see a consensus forming about the need to redefine/clarify the
concept of ATC...

On 04/22/2014 08:41 PM, Richard Fontana wrote:
> I have to emphasize how unusual I believe this policy is. I have been
> trying to find some example of an open source project-related
> membership foundation (there aren't too many of these) with a similar
> policy, with no success. [...]

I see no major problem redefining (clarify) the concept of ATC and
Individual Members but this deserves its own separate thread to
investigate the ramifications.

> Also, it is not beyond the realm of possibility that the Foundation
> might someday charge a fee for Individual memberships. If that ever
> happened, and the policy remained in place, I believe it would look
> really bad.

It would be so bad that it won't happen, realistically... it's as likely
to happen as charging for downloads.

Moving forward, maybe we should start discussing how we can split the
ATC role from the 'plain' contributor role. I will take a shot at
writing a 'license deed' to submit here for evaluation. Any other thoughts?

/stef

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