Open Stack

On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 09:28 -0500, Rich Bowen wrote:
> On 01/22/2014 06:27 AM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > I'd suggest:
> >
> >    - We want to be able to distribute OpenStack under the Apache License
> >      v2, so:
> >       - All code to the project must be contributed under the ALv2
> >       - We can incorporate BSD/MIT licensed code from other projects
> >       - We can use LGPL, BSD, MIT, etc. licensed libraries; currently,
> >         we're being conservative and not using GPL/AGPL libraries
> >
> >    - There is no need for contributors to grant the foundation a special
> >      license.
> >
> >    - We copy the kernel's Signed-off-by/DCO method of having all
> >      developers who contribute to a patch state they have the right to
> >      contribute the patch under ALv2
> >
> >    - We consolidate all copyright notices into a single "copyright
> >      multiple authors" notice above the ALv2 header, making it clear the
> >      code is directly licensed by the authors under ALv2 without the
> >      foundation acting as an intermediary
> >
> > This is just a strawman idea to draw some comments. What am I missing?
> This sounds good to me. Major contributors should be encouraged to sign 
> a CLA, to protect the Foundation, but smaller contributions (no idea 
> where to draw the line here) don't seem to require that. (This is, 
> anyways, how the ASF handles this.)

That's not what I'm describing. I don't know exactly what protection for
the Foundation you're talking about, but I'm proposing we achieve that
without a special agreement between contributors and the Foundation.

Mark.