On Apr 23, 2008, at 12:03 AM, Sam Ruby wrote:
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Gianugo Rabellino
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Apr 22, 2008, at 11:45 PM, Sam Ruby wrote:
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Gianugo Rabellino
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wrote:
On Apr 22, 2008, at 10:44 PM, Sam Ruby wrote:
Just so it is clear: I am comfortable with POI proceeding if
everybody
understands that in the event that patent threats surface that I
will
be advocating that the affected code be remedied and/or
jettisoned. I
am also comfortable with assisting Andy with his efforts to
reduce the
possibility that this ever occurs.
+1, as in not only I agree but I will be the first one to act in
that case,
but is this something Andy would be comfortable with?
I made two statements there. I am comfortable with both. I take it
that you are comfortable with the first and have no objection to the
second.
That's correct.
Roy has spelled out how the crafters of the various ASF documents
intended for the License, ICLA, and CCLA to be interpreted. If that
interpretation is either surprising or unacceptable to either
Sourcesense or Microsoft, then perhaps we may need to continue this
discussion.
As you can imagine, I won't/can't speak for Microsoft. With my
Sourcesense
hat on I have no problem with that interpretation. It might puzzle
my ASF
member hat and my Italian law school memories, but if that's an
authoritative reading of how the xCLAs are to be interpreted, I'm
fine with
it and I believe that would sort the issue right from the start.
While I, too, can't speak FOR Microsoft, I am quite willing to speak
WITH Microsoft. Particularly if the request was modestly scoped, and
if doing so would sort the issue right from the start.
Same here, with a caveat (ASF hat on): I wouldn't like the ASF to
make a special case for Microsoft, be it red carpets or ordeals.
Microsoft isn't the only one with patents funding Open Source stuff:
unless we limit our requests to clarification of existing stuff such
as the OSP, whatever we come up with should be general enough to
become a standard procedure.
Ciao,
--
Gianugo Rabellino
Sourcesense - making sense of Open Source: http://www.sourcesense.com
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