[legal-discuss] Contribution snag.

Tom Fifield tom at openstack.org
Wed Dec 4 23:20:03 UTC 2013


On 05/12/13 10:15, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> 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.
> 

I believe "National Labs" in this context is used to refer to DOE
National Labs, as in: http://energy.gov/maps/doe-national-laboratories .
 While JHUAPL does do work for Defense, as far as I know it isn't run by
Batelle, or directly under the DOE umbrella.


Regards,


Tom



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