Re: Is a Software Grant Agreement always needed for IP Clearance?

2014-04-20 Thread Help Earth Foundation
As pointed out it's about Cray, And it comes down to a specific document
that would state that works of employee x except projects a,b,c are
excluded. from their IP overlay

NRJ


On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Toki  wrote:

> On 4/5/2014 8:08 AM, Rob Vesse wrote:
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>  entirely by myself though obviously Cray holds the copyright.
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> That little datapoint is not obvious at all.
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> Whether or not that is the case depends upon the specific wording of your
> contract with Cray, your legal jurisdiction, Cray's legal jurisdiction,
> which statutes reflecting copyright and employment issues take precedence,
> and how case law, if applicable, affects those statutes, contracts, etc.
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>  In this scenario is a SGA actually needed to carry out IP Clearance of
>> the contributed code or are the existing ICLA and CCLA sufficient?
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> I'd suggest what is arguably the most conservative position possible.
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> Show a clear chain of evidence showing who the legal copyright owner of
> the contributed code is.
> File an SGA for the IP Clearance of the contributed code.
> Treat both the ICLA and CCLA as after-the-fact supplemental permissions.
>
> I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.
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> jonathon
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Re: Recuse as mentor?

2011-06-05 Thread Help Earth Foundation
not necessary,

NRJ

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Simon Phipps  wrote:
> I really can't see that as necessary Jim.
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Re: OpenOffice Proposal: Relationships with Other Apache Products

2011-06-05 Thread Help Earth Foundation
Some of the Wave capabilities would be helpful off top of head.

NRJ

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Ross Gardler  wrote:
> Sent from my mobile device (so please excuse typos)
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> On 5 Jun 2011, at 04:17, Shane Curcuru  wrote:
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>> robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote:
>>> I plan on updating the proposal on the wiki over the week-end.  I'm going 
>>> to start a series of threads on various sections of the proposal that I 
>>> think are a bit thin and which I could use some help with. For 
>>> "Relationships with Other Apache Products" we currently just call out only 
>>> POI as a possible connection based on document file formats that are in 
>>> common between the two projects, both the current POI Microsoft Office 
>>> formats, as well as possible future ODF libraries.
>>> Are there any other Apache projects where there might be an interesting 
>>> relationship?   Anything jump out?
>>
>> How about Community Development over at community.apache.org?
>>
>> It's not a technical relationship to be sure, but there have been far more 
>> discussions about how to manage communities in threads related to this 
>> potential podling than there have about almost any technical issues.
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> In my opinion there are two relationships with ComDev:
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> 1) The education projects would seem to marry reasonably well with ComDevs 
> current activities on mentoring. Although I should point out that The OO.o 
> efforts have a different focus (although not necessarily out of scope for us)
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> 2) in understanding the ApacheWay. It's the Incubators job to ensure the 
> project is working well in this regard . ComDev has been increasing it's 
> efforts to develop entry level docs for newcomers, and we've started to 
> document some of our internal (often unwritten) knowledge. I'm pleased to say 
> Dennis Hamilton has already helped us fix up a few issues as a result of this 
> proposal.
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> The proposal already has a request for a comdev mentor. I'm considering my 
> time availability and encourage others (ComDev or otherwise) to consider 
> signing up.
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