<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi Luis, <br></div>Two calls ago, we agreed that it would be useful to provide information about common legal tools and some of the ways they are used by people, projects and companies to facilitate adoption and production of free and open source software. <br><br></div>Here's the list of topics we want to cover:<br><div id="gmail-magicdomid36" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-author-g-z122z7q25mvx3et18ohj"><br></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid37" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-author-g-l0766395vpo8efx8">   </span><span class="gmail-author-g-z122z7q25mvx3et18ohj">*</span><span class="gmail-author-g-l0766395vpo8efx8"> Copyright</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid38" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-author-g-l0766395vpo8efx8">        "managing Inbound Contributions"</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid39" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-author-g-l0766395vpo8efx8">            Ownership vs Provenance</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid40" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-author-g-l0766395vpo8efx8">            </span><span class="gmail-author-g-z122z7q25mvx3et18ohj">Set developer expectations </span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid41" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-author-g-9na5u3yoblhpupvj">            Relicensing processes </span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid42" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-author-g-l0766395vpo8efx8">        "managing Outbound Distribution"</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid43" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-author-g-l0766395vpo8efx8">             Liability</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid44" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-author-g-9na5u3yoblhpupvj">             Distributability (do you have the rights you think you have to distribute?)</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid45" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-author-g-l0766395vpo8efx8">    </span><span class="gmail-author-g-z122z7q25mvx3et18ohj">* </span><span class="gmail-author-g-l0766395vpo8efx8">Trademark</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid46" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-author-g-l0766395vpo8efx8">        How, When and Why To Register</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid47" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-author-g-l0766395vpo8efx8">            Do trademarks empower or inhibit openness?</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid48" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-author-g-l0766395vpo8efx8">        How Not To Infringe On Existing Marks</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid49" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-author-g-l0766395vpo8efx8">    </span><span class="gmail-author-g-z122z7q25mvx3et18ohj">* </span><span class="gmail-author-g-l0766395vpo8efx8">Patents</span><span class="gmail-author-g-z122z7q25mvx3et18ohj"> </span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid50" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-author-g-z122z7q25mvx3et18ohj">      How they interact with open source licenses</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid51" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-author-g-z122z7q25mvx3et18ohj">        explicit patent licenses</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid52" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-author-g-z122z7q25mvx3et18ohj">        implicit patent licenses</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid53" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-author-g-z122z7q25mvx3et18ohj">      Defensive strategies</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid54" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-author-g-z122z7q25mvx3et18ohj">        Non-aggression pacts, LOT, patent pledges, defensive publications</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid55" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-author-g-l0766395vpo8efx8">   </span><span class="gmail-author-g-z122z7q25mvx3et18ohj">*</span><span class="gmail-author-g-l0766395vpo8efx8"> Employment Agreements as they relate to your open source work</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid56" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-author-g-z122z7q25mvx3et18ohj">    Trade secrets</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid57" class="gmail-"><br></div>In our most recent meeting, we noted that most of us seemed reluctant to jump in solo on the wiki, <span class="gmail-author-g-9na5u3yoblhpupvj"></span><span class="gmail-author-g-9na5u3yoblhpupvj gmail-url"><a href="https://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Main/Projects/beyond-licensing/Legal+Considerations/">https://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Main/Projects/beyond-licensing/Legal+Considerations/</a> so we came up with a plan to schedule a group editing session. <br><br></span></div><span class="gmail-author-g-9na5u3yoblhpupvj gmail-url">The idea is to find a time when several committee participants can edit at once so nobody feels like they are scooping the group. <br><br></span></div><span class="gmail-author-g-9na5u3yoblhpupvj gmail-url">The doodle poll to schedule is here, <a href="http://doodle.com/poll/xxcismxqiz6wyux7">http://doodle.com/poll/xxcismxqiz6wyux7</a><br><br></span></div><span class="gmail-author-g-9na5u3yoblhpupvj gmail-url">Thanks, <br></span></div><span class="gmail-author-g-9na5u3yoblhpupvj gmail-url">Deb  <br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Luis Villa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luis@lu.is" target="_blank">luis@lu.is</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi, Deb-<br></div>For those of us who weren't in the call, can you elaborate a bit on what you had in mind for this? Sounds potentially interesting but pretty vague :)<br><br></div>Thanks!<br></div>Luis<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 10:41 AM Deb Nicholson <<a href="mailto:deb@eximiousproductions.com" target="_blank">deb@eximiousproductions.com</a>> wrote:<br></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hi, <br></div>At today's meeting, we decided to schedule online group editing to populate the wiki with ideas for Legal Considerations in September. <br><br></div>Doodle poll, <a href="http://doodle.com/poll/xxcismxqiz6wyux7" target="_blank">http://doodle.com/poll/<wbr>xxcismxqiz6wyux7</a><br><br></div>We will use etherpads to get ideas down and then transfer them to the wiki at the end of the session. The first session will run for an hour, although no one will be kicked out of the etherpads if they want to spend a second hour editing.  <br><br></div>Thanks!<br></div>Deb<br></div></div></div>
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