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Hi Jeremy and everyone.  I am working on this question for the Foundation.
I have talked with Kevin and am doing some legal leg work.  I will get in
touch with Stefano.

Welcome back from the Summit!  

Thank you,

Alice King


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Stanley [mailto:fungi at yuggoth.org] 
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 5:32 PM
To: Fox, Kevin M
Cc: legal-discuss at lists.openstack.org
Subject: Re: [legal-discuss] Contribution snag.

On 2013-11-06 15:11:44 -0800 (-0800), Fox, Kevin M wrote:
> I'm trying to contribute something and have run into some snags.
> See email below. Steve told me that the Foundation is the one needing 
> to receive this. I tried but got no response so I'm forwarding it to 
> the legal list.

Thanks! You picked an unfortunate week to raise questions since most of us
are in Hong Kong for our semi-annual conference and design summit, but I
suspect you'll get more responses soon. I'll also bring this to Stefano
Maffulli's attention since he tends to deal with most of the community
interaction on this point.

> I've been looking through the individual contributor level agreement 
> and in section 7 it mentions contacting the project manager, which I 
> think is you for heat?
[...]

The second sentence of the clarifying paragraph at the beginning of the ICLA
defines it as, "OpenStack Foundation as Project manager (the 'Project
Manager')."

>  * I work for a national lab and while the contribution was  created 
> by us government funds and owned by the us government, we  are 
> operated by a corporation, Battelle and I am technically a  Battelle 
> employee. There really isn't an agreement that seems to  cover this 
> case other then the individual agreement with a  contribution from 
> others.
> 
>  * All parts of the work that aren't derived directly from  existing 
> heat-templates has been put in the public domain.

I think the contributors at JHUAPL are in a similar situation and contribute
under a USGCLA, but Stefano should be able to clarify how that works.
--
Jeremy Stanley

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