On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 19:22 -0500, Anne Gentle wrote:
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>wrote:
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 04:19:24PM -0500, Mark Brown wrote:
Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com> wrote on 05/14/2013 04:03:19 PM:
Re: [legal-discuss] [openstack-tc] Copyrights and License Headers in source files
Mostly, I wanted to suggest that a lawyer needs to advise us on this. The Foundation is our go-to place for legal help, is it not?
That is a very interesting question, as phrased, but I'd say the answer is no.
No offense intended, Richard, honest! -- I'm just curious on what they (OpenStack Foundation as organized) would say on the topic, if they have a say at all.
Oh, I didn't take any offense at all. And I also think any viewpoint of the Foundation on this issue (or, let's say, on an issue that was less trivial than this one), if it already existed, would be interesting and given a lot of consideration. However, maybe I misread it but I took your statements to imply that the Foundation plays a role in providing legal advice to the collective body of OpenStack project contributors.
When I emailed Lisa Miller, one of the Foundations corporate attorney team, I got the following guidance. I don't know if she "plays a role in providing legal advice to the collective body of OpenStack project contributors" but she plays a role in providing legal advice. To whom exactly I'm not certain but she replied to my email when I was asking about OpenStack LLC copyright transfer and guidance on headers. Here's the summary, collected in the wiki page at https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/Copyright.
This is a good example of where we really did need guidance from the Foundation and its counsel - the issue was specifically about copyright headers relating to OpenStack LLC whose assets were transferred to the Foundation - i.e. the notices pertained to Foundation assets. Cheers, Mark.