[legal-discuss] NOTICE files

Jeremy Stanley fungi at yuggoth.org
Mon Apr 29 01:04:08 UTC 2013


On 2013-04-25 21:27:20 -0400 (-0400), Richard Fontana wrote:
[...]
> I see occasional uses of "Copyright OpenStack Foundation" in source
> files and I am not clear on whether this signifies code that was
> originally copyrighted by OpenStack LLC or, instead, some sort of
> attempt (like the deprecated ASF practice) to provide attribution to
> the OpenStack Foundation regardless of whether it is actually in any
> interesting sense a copyright holder.
> 
> It is also not clear to me that it is *proper* to give attribution to
> the OpenStack *Foundation*, but that's a project-specific cultural
> question and I don't have good insight into that.

In the case of code contribution from those of us who are directly
employed by the OpenStack Foundation, it seems entirely appropriate
(at least to me, though IANAL). I'm curious whether you have an
alternative suggestion.
-- 
Jeremy Stanley



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