work :) i appreciate it does mean not needing a special EU Auditor,
and also an opportunity to review, half-way through.
+**
What would work on the legal compliance for the development look
like? Who would be doing that?
+**
-IBM - or more to the point the OPF ISA WG - requesting that all
-contributors sign an "Inbound Patent License Agreement". in our
+The OpenPOWER Foundation - probably using IBM or LinuxFoundation
+Legal Counsel - requesting that all contributors sign an
+"Inbound Patent License Agreement". in our
case there *aren't* any patents, but we still have to sign an
agreement that there aren't any, and, also, that if we *do* create
any patents that those will be assigned to the OPF immediately.
+There is also a Copyright Assignment requirement (which IBM also had
+to agree to, now that the Power ISA is owned by the OpenPOWER Foundation)
Perhaps a budget for some legal assistance in reviewing that agreement
might be a good idea? NLnet has funded this work under its
"Works for the Public Good" mandate: we don't want to be caught out