I don't know very much about JHUAPL, but it looks like they may be one organization at one site (website mentions 399-acre self-contained community). Battelle operates many individual national labs spread across the country. This is a different scale of problem I think. Thanks, Kevin ________________________________________ From: Jeremy Stanley [fungi@yuggoth.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 3:15 PM To: Fox, Kevin M Cc: legal-discuss@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [legal-discuss] Contribution snag. On 2013-12-04 11:50:04 -0800 (-0800), Fox, Kevin M wrote:
I'm hoping it will be an ongoing thing. Figuring out a good solution rather then a one off solution would be preferable I think. I'm sure other national labs will run into the same issue since they tend to be ran the same way as we are. [...]
Interestingly, JHUAPL did not express any concerns over patent clauses as far as I'm aware, and their employees have been contributing to OpenStack under the terms of the USGCLA for quite a while. -- Jeremy Stanley