Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:58008 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752713AbeBZOEz (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Feb 2018 09:04:55 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add LICENSE for Connectathon test suite To: Trond Myklebust , "bfields@fieldses.org" Cc: "sumitgt@google.com" , "linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" References: <20180224010702.235739-1-sumitgt@google.com> <1519441996.24645.5.camel@primarydata.com> <1519443337.24645.17.camel@primarydata.com> <86922e14-8764-6582-047c-e5c39746c21c@RedHat.com> <20180225234734.GA12540@fieldses.org> <1519608588.27305.5.camel@primarydata.com> From: Steve Dickson Message-ID: <10fdcb85-66dd-1a13-8a86-735e605dcd0c@RedHat.com> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 09:04:53 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1519608588.27305.5.camel@primarydata.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 02/25/2018 08:29 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Sun, 2018-02-25 at 18:47 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 03:41:48PM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote: >>> On 02/23/2018 10:35 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote: >>>> I therefore suspect that if you were to talk to your employer's >>>> legal >>>> department, they would strongly advise to let these particular >>>> sleeping >>>> dogs lie. >>> >>> If the google lawyers are good with this... >> >> I've seen no evidence that google has any ownership of any of the >> Connectathon test suite code. Who owns the code now? The same people that owned it way back when? >> >> We need to leave this alone unless we get a much better explanation. > > If Google does want to contribute, then perhaps they might volunteer to > write an Apache licensed and independently developed version of the > testsuite? That would break the deadlock that we have today without > risking offending any of the original copyright holders, and would > allow us to resume contributing further extensions. > By no means am I a lawyer... Actually I avoid as much as possible ;-) But you are saying if Google adds this license they now own the code? steved.