On 07/25/2016 05:59 AM, Amrith Kumar wrote: > Bug 1214176 seeks to "Fix copyright headers to be compliant with Foundation policies" and one of the changes being made is to substitute "OpenStack Foundation" in places where the code said "OpenStack LLC". > > Someone just pushed changes to Keystone, Murano and Trove today and I have some concerns about this change. > > Consider the following changes, [2], [3], [4], and [5]. > > They assert a copyright in 2011 or 2010 of an entity called "OpenStack Foundation" that was only established in 2012 [6]. > > Are these changes legally accurate? 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 > -amrith > > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1214176 > [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/346675/1/keystone/policy/backends/rules.py > [3] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/346673/1/tools/install_venv.py > [4] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/346669/1/murano/common/cf_config.py > [5] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/346669/1/murano/common/config.py > [6] http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120919005997/en/OpenStack-Launches-Independent-Foundation-Begins-Work-Protecting > > > _______________________________________________ > legal-discuss mailing list > legal-discuss at lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-discuss >