On Apr 6, 2009, at 4:59 PM, Paul Lathrop wrote: > I wish I knew more about the issues at hand. I know that my existing > knowledge as well as my intuition leads me to agree that option #2 is > best for Reductive Labs and the Puppet community as a whole. On the > other hand, I also know that the copyright assignment thing is going > to make it more difficult for me to make contributions. Although I'm > not a big contributor, I do have permission to spend time writing code > for Puppet -- as long as that process only impacts my department, I'm > likely to keep getting permission. Unfortunately, copyright assignment > involves the legal branch of our company, who are typically clueless > corporate-whore lawyers. Once they have to get involved, it is going > to get ugly. I think other people at startups might face similar > barriers to contribution.
I expect you're right, but I would hope to be able to invest time in helping to convince these lawyers. If I have to pay for a couple of hours' time to convince a company's lawyers to allow contribution here or there, it's probably worth it. And after a few such conversations, I think our side could be carried on without lawyers, or we'll have some on staff and won't pay the hourly rates. Either way the lawyerly stuff comes up a lot more often than I'd like. > > Thanks for keeping this process open, Luke, I hope people give you the > credit you deserve for your efforts to make Reductive Labs be a > community member rather than a corporate dictator. Thanks, we try. :) -- Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. -- Albert Camus --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
