Hi Kevin, I sympathise and I'm very sorry for the pain. I don't have any great insights into your case and I know the foundation and Legal Affairs Committee are trying to resolve it. It does nothing to help in the short term but, ultimately, I hope we can do away with the CLA. There's a lot of work we need to do before we can even have a fully considered discussion on the topic though: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/legal-discuss/2014-January/000163.html Mark. On Fri, 2014-02-07 at 17:37 +0000, Fox, Kevin M wrote:
Hi Mark,
Well, I'm.... disappointed, to say the least.
I'm growing weary of trying to do the right thing here. Its been over 4 months now. I've been postponing writing more patches and unless someone can convince me soon that there is any hope of resolving this, I will just give up on writing any more code and stop trying to contribute what I have written. What a shame.
The OpenStack project has really been hamstrung by fear of patents. Even on things that are very obviously not patentable.
Anyway, not trying to shoot the messenger. Thanks for letting me know.
Thanks, Kevin ________________________________________ From: Mark McLoughlin [markmc@redhat.com] Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 8:48 AM To: Fox, Kevin M Cc: legal-discuss@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [legal-discuss] Contribution snag.
Hey Kevin,
FWIW, and since I don't see a response to your question - I don't recall this being mentioned at last week's board meeting:
http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2014/02/07/jan-30-openstack-foundation-board-m...
Thanks, Mark.
On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 18:27 +0000, Fox, Kevin M wrote:
Any news from the board meeting?
Thanks, Kevin ________________________________ From: Fox, Kevin M Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 1:48 PM To: Lisa Miller; Stefano Maffulli; Alice King; 'Richard Fontana' Cc: legal-discuss@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [legal-discuss] Contribution snag.
Ok. Thanks for the rough time line, that really helps.
Kevin ________________________________ From: Lisa Miller [lisa@lsmillerlaw.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 1:21 PM To: Fox, Kevin M; Stefano Maffulli; Alice King; 'Richard Fontana' Cc: legal-discuss@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [legal-discuss] Contribution snag.
Hi Kevin,
We are still working on this for you. As Alice mentioned in her last email, we are working on whether this needs to go to the foundation's board of directors. The next board meeting is January 30, so I am hopeful that this can be resolved quickly thereafter.
Thanks, Lisa
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From: <Fox>, Kevin M <Kevin.Fox@pnnl.gov<mailto:Kevin.Fox@pnnl.gov>> Date: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 11:41 AM To: Stefano Maffulli <stefano@openstack.org<mailto:stefano@openstack.org>>, Alice King <alice@alicelkingpc.com<mailto:alice@alicelkingpc.com>>, 'Richard Fontana' <rfontana@redhat.com<mailto:rfontana@redhat.com>> Cc: "legal-discuss@lists.openstack.org<mailto:legal-discuss@lists.openstack.org>" <legal-discuss@lists.openstack.org<mailto:legal-discuss@lists.openstack.org>> Subject: Re: [legal-discuss] Contribution snag.
Ping. Any update on this? I know vacations probably cut into things but its also January 8th now, 3 months...
Thanks, Kevin ________________________________________ From: Fox, Kevin M Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 12:47 PM To: Stefano Maffulli; Alice King; 'Richard Fontana' Cc: legal-discuss@lists.openstack.org<mailto:legal-discuss@lists.openstack.org> Subject: Re: [legal-discuss] Contribution snag.
Ok, thanks. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't forgotten.
Kevin ________________________________________ From: Stefano Maffulli [stefano@openstack.org<mailto:stefano@openstack.org>] Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 11:50 AM To: Fox, Kevin M; Alice King; 'Richard Fontana' Cc: legal-discuss@lists.openstack.org<mailto:legal-discuss@lists.openstack.org> Subject: Re: [legal-discuss] Contribution snag.
Hi Kevin
On 12/16/2013 09:39 AM, Fox, Kevin M wrote: I wrote the network topology sort patch October 3 in about 1 hour. It is now December 15. What do we need to do to get things resolved?
I'm really sorry this is taking so long to address, it's very unfortunate I agree. Currently the issue is being debated with the Executive Director and Foundation's legal counsel. I hope to have more news for you soon.
/stef
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