Open Stack

Hi TC,

At the time of the July OpenStack Foundation board meeting I was a
lawyer for Red Hat and as part of my work for my then-client I
substantially prepared a paper on the CLA/DCO issue. That paper was
provided to the Board, and some slides summarizing some points in the
paper were presented at the Board meeting.

As some of you may know I left Red Hat in August and recently started
a job as a lawyer at HP.

It was my expectation in July that the paper and/or the slides would
be published more widely (cf.:
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2014-July/001718.html). This
apparently was not done.

A senior employee of my former client has asked that I post the paper
to this list. The paper (as a form of property) properly belongs to
Red Hat but was stored in a personal Google Drive account. It's
here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17aY-R4I_-JE7Lg5Z3VCjdAxIjNRiXZKUaDGBwFq266U/
+edit?usp=sharing

I wish to make absolutely clear I am not posting this for my current
client, but at the request of my former client, and I emphasize again
that posting it now merely belatedly satisfies an expectation of
publication that existed in July. Absence of publication would seem to
be in conflict with at least the spirit of the Foundation's
Transparency Policy
(http://www.openstack.org/legal/transparency-policy/).

The paper makes some references to a draft memo prepared by the
Foundation's counsel which itself was not published (so far as I know)
beyond the OpenStack Foundation Legal Affairs Committee, though it may
be fair to regard it as a partial basis for the PowerPoint slides that
were posted on this list recently. It should be borne in mind that
some of the points referenced in that memo may not reflect the current
views of the Foundation's counsel.

 - RF