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We need to carefully consider the scope of the waiver, its enforceability and whether it could be modified in the future.

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Fontana [mailto:rfontana at redhat.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 6:46 AM
To: Van Lindberg
Cc: legal-discuss at lists.openstack.org
Subject: Re: [legal-discuss] [openstack-dev] [Marconi] Why is marconi a queue implementation vs a provisioning API?

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 08:31:51AM -0500, Van Lindberg wrote:
> Such a policy needs to be made on a project-by-project basis, as well, 
> especially w/r/t AGPL code. MongoDB/10Gen has communicated very 
> clearly where they consider their copyright boundary to exist, and I 
> believe that legally that functions as a waiver/license if they would 
> ever end up being wrong (which I don't think they would, as I believe 
> a network communication creates a copyright boundary).

I agree with this. 

There really isn't enough AGPL code in existence to necessitate a non-case-specific policy (apart from a policy that calls for case-specific treatment). 

 - RF


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