Re: [PATCH] Add LICENSE for Connectathon test suite

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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. 
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