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Hi Mark,

Well, I'm.... disappointed, to say the least.

I'm growing weary of trying to do the right thing here. Its been over 4 months now. I've been postponing writing more patches and unless someone can convince me soon that there is any hope of resolving this, I will just give up on writing any more code and stop trying to contribute what I have written. What a shame.

The OpenStack project has really been hamstrung by fear of patents. Even on things that are very obviously not patentable.

Anyway, not trying to shoot the messenger. Thanks for letting me know.

Thanks,
Kevin
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From: Mark McLoughlin [markmc at redhat.com]
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 8:48 AM
To: Fox, Kevin M
Cc: legal-discuss at lists.openstack.org
Subject: Re: [legal-discuss] Contribution snag.

Hey Kevin,

FWIW, and since I don't see a response to your question - I don't recall
this being mentioned at last week's board meeting:

http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2014/02/07/jan-30-openstack-foundation-board-meeting/

Thanks,
Mark.

On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 18:27 +0000, Fox, Kevin M wrote:
> Any news from the board meeting?
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
> ________________________________
> From: Fox, Kevin M
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 1:48 PM
> To: Lisa Miller; Stefano Maffulli; Alice King; 'Richard Fontana'
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> Subject: Re: [legal-discuss] Contribution snag.
>
> Ok. Thanks for the rough time line, that really helps.
>
> Kevin
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>
> Hi Kevin,
>
> We are still working on this for you.  As Alice mentioned in her last email, we are working on whether this needs to go to the foundation's board of directors.  The next board meeting is January 30, so I am hopeful that this can be resolved quickly thereafter.
>
> Thanks,
> Lisa
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> From: <Fox>, Kevin M <Kevin.Fox at pnnl.gov<mailto:Kevin.Fox at pnnl.gov>>
> Date: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 11:41 AM
> To: Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org<mailto:stefano at openstack.org>>, Alice King <alice at alicelkingpc.com<mailto:alice at alicelkingpc.com>>, 'Richard Fontana' <rfontana at redhat.com<mailto:rfontana at redhat.com>>
> Cc: "legal-discuss at lists.openstack.org<mailto:legal-discuss at lists.openstack.org>" <legal-discuss at lists.openstack.org<mailto:legal-discuss at lists.openstack.org>>
> Subject: Re: [legal-discuss] Contribution snag.
>
> Ping. Any update on this? I know vacations probably cut into things but its also January 8th now, 3 months...
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
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> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 12:47 PM
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> Cc: legal-discuss at lists.openstack.org<mailto:legal-discuss at lists.openstack.org>
> Subject: Re: [legal-discuss] Contribution snag.
>
> Ok, thanks. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't forgotten.
>
> Kevin
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> From: Stefano Maffulli [stefano at openstack.org<mailto:stefano at openstack.org>]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 11:50 AM
> To: Fox, Kevin M; Alice King; 'Richard Fontana'
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> Subject: Re: [legal-discuss] Contribution snag.
>
> Hi Kevin
>
> On 12/16/2013 09:39 AM, Fox, Kevin M wrote:
> I wrote the network topology sort patch October 3 in about 1 hour. It
> is now December 15. What do we need to do to get things resolved?
>
> I'm really sorry this is taking so long to address, it's very
> unfortunate I agree. Currently the issue is being debated with the
> Executive Director and Foundation's legal counsel. I hope to have more
> news for you soon.
>
> /stef
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