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 > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-discuss > __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
