Open Stack

Richard Fontana <rfontana at redhat.com> wrote on 05/14/2013 02:50:31 PM:
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 01:53:19PM -0500, Mark Brown wrote:
> > In several cases, the provenance of individual files was being 
> > investigated,
> > and per-file copyright statements were an important part of that.
> 
> In the case of OpenStack, like many other modern projects, the most
> accurate file provenance record would seem to be the git commit
> history. That does not necessarily tell you anything conclusive about
> copyright ownership, but it is a better record to go by than examining
> copyright notices in source files (which, as noted, could well be, or
> become, inaccurate).

Ah, but when files are taken from this project and used in another
(non-Stack) work, they become out-of-context from your git.

> 
> > IANAL, but I heartily suggest that this topic be brought up at the 
> > Foundation
> > level, before we put anything into effect at the Project level.
> 
> This honestly seems way too trivial to be a Foundation-level issue (I
> assume by that you mean something that requires a Board
> decision?). (Again, for clarification, I am not taking a particular
> stance on the issue being discussed here.)

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?

Mark Brown