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Awesome! Sounds good :)

-- dims

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hey Dims,
>
> On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 16:39 -0400, Davanum Srinivas wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Let me start with IANAL :)
>>
>> At the ASF, the root directory of each project has a NOTICE file (same
>> directory as the LICENSE) file. This file is for collecting copyright,
>> attribution etc. and per the Apache License 2.0 (Section 4.d) [1]
>> requires those who create derivative works using our code to carry
>> those along as well. Please see the following examples.
>>
>> https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/trunk/NOTICE?view=log
>> https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/axis/axis2/java/core/trunk/NOTICE.txt?view=log
>> https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/geronimo/server/trunk/NOTICE?view=log
>>
>> Do we have a mechanism that serves the same purpose? Should we adopt
>> this practice?
>
> Interesting question! Can we shelve the question for a short time? :)
>
> Given some recent discussions amongst the TC, during the Foundation
> board meeting last week I brought up the issue of the technical
> community needing more support from subject matter experts on legal
> matters such as this.
>
> The examples I gave were:
>
>  * Changing of OpenStack LLC copyright notices
>
>  * Licensing compliance
>    * e.g. copying and pasting BSD code
>    * e.g. GPL licensed shell script
>
>  * Licensing policy for dependencies
>    * e.g. ALv2, MIT, BSD, LGPL assumed fine
>    * What about e.g. GPL, AGPL?
>    * Policy vs review process
>
> When it comes to actual formal legal advice, we do have the option of
> asking the Foundation to have its council review a matter and this may
> occasionally be necessary. However, in many cases such as this, what we
> really want is for knowledgeable people to share their experiences from
> other projects, explain their understanding of the rationale for various
> approaches, share what they perceive to be issues with what we're doing,
> etc. Even if we did have legal council give us formal advice, we need a
> way to discuss that amongst ourselves and with interested subject matter
> experts.
>
> Anyway, the blindingly obvious suggestion from Richard Fontana is that
> we create a legal-discuss mailing list like many other projects have
> done. The advantage to such a list is that subject matter experts could
> actually follow that list, but they'd never be able to cope with the
> volume on openstack-dev.
>
> The only concern anyone has raised to date was from the Foundation's
> legal council that messages on the list could be construed as legal
> advice, but we can put appropriate disclaimers about the place the allay
> that fear. Everyone else I talked to (including e.g. Alice King, who
> co-ordinates the Legal Affairs Committee) thinks it's a fine idea.
>
> This question would be a perfect first topic for discussion on the new
> list :)
>
> Cheers,
> Mark.
>
>
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