Open Stack

On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 19:22 -0500, Anne Gentle wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Richard Fontana <rfontana at redhat.com>wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 04:19:24PM -0500, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > Richard Fontana <rfontana at 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.