[legal-discuss] [keystone][murano][trove][imm] Changing OpenStack LLC to OpenStack Foundation

Jeremy Stanley fungi at yuggoth.org
Mon Jul 25 17:37:59 UTC 2016


On 2016-07-25 09:04:14 -0500 (-0500), Monty Taylor wrote:
[...]
> IANAL but IIRC this is correct/valid. When the OpenStack Foundation was
> formed, the IP owned by the original LLC was transferred to the Foundation.
> 
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/22684/ for instance did this in Nova
> back in February of 2013. You can see the original bug here:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1214176
> 
> which references:
> 
> http://www.openstack.org/brand/openstack-trademark-policy/
> 
> and the patches that go along with it:
> 
> https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:bug/1214176
[...]

Also the advice about handling copyright notices was summarized at
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/LegalIssuesFAQ#Copyright_Headers .
The text about replacing LLC with Foundation remains basically
unchanged since Anne added it in May of 2013 following lengthy
copyright-related ML threads on openstack-tc, legal-discuss and
openstack-dev:

    http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/legal-discuss/2013-May/000060.html

-- 
Jeremy Stanley



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