> The whole reason for Openstack is because of the need for Eucalyptus to > have copyright assignment to them. Further the fact that they can reject > updates based on it conflicting with the corporate sales and inclusion > of not openly released code.
Any project can reject updates, anyway. Ultimately, you might have to fork it. > BTW, while I didn't download the code to look for the license in it, the > agreement that you have to sign to contribute code back means it is not > really a fully open project. The assignment of copyrights and patents to > the sponsoring corp means they can take the software in their repo private > at anytime they wish. You get free as in beer but not free as in speech. Not really. In that case, you still have the software as it was up until the time it was taken private. It's still forkable from that point. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney, Sr. mdcha...@michaelchaney.com http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
