Open Stack

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 01:17:58PM -0400, Richard Fontana wrote:
> I believe the CLA does nothing to prevent the OpenStack Foundation
> from removing all copyright notices from contributions to
> OpenStack. The OpenStack Foundation is also given authority under the
> CLA to distribute OpenStack under the Apache License 2.0 (as though
> that were the initial Apache License grant). It may be that the set
> of permissions the Foundation gets under the CLA are permissions it
> wishes to have in reserve but not exercise, but I have been assuming
> otherwise. The OpenStack Foundation bylaws, section 7.1, seem to me to
> support this assumption. There may be something uncomfortable about
> this, but it's probably better to deal with the discomfort.

I was forgetting something, which is that the OpenStack CLA states
that the contributor is granting the copyright license not just to the
"Project Manager" (defined to mean the Foundation) but also "to
recipients of software distributed by the Project Manager", reusing
language in the original Apache CLAs. 

I suppose this implies that if the Foundation can remove copyright
notices (placed by CLA signatories) so can anyone involved in the
project (conceived of as something distinct from the
Foundation). 

- RF