On 2015-05-06 17:21:09 -0400 (-0400), Richard Fontana wrote: [...]
The issue is touched upon here https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStackAndItsCLA#Relationship_to_the_Apach... (That is a wiki page I worked on with markmc last year. It is admittedly a piece of advocacy and contains some assertions that have been disputed by at least one person.) [...]
Thanks again--I had indeed forgotten there was some additional explanation of the differences in that article. It's still vague insofar as it states that the OpenStack ICLA is structured in a way so as to not place "certain conditions" on the OpenStack Foundation (as compared to a basic grant of the contribution to them under the Apache License) but doesn't indicate what those omitted conditions are. It also mentions additional "legal burdens" on OpenStack contributors without enumerating them. Ultimately I worry that pointing someone there will raise more questions than it answers. I could guess at them, based on a lay reading of the agreement, but perhaps that's the intent of the article after all. Probably my greatest confusion is whether these differences over the Apache License have actually been leveraged to date, or are so far merely unexercised. The way in which the OpenStack Foundation "releases" OpenStack software hasn't (yet!) seemed contradictory to typical methods used by other software projects with similar licenses and no CLA. -- Jeremy Stanley