One of the key value propositions of the Sakai Foundation is clean intellectual property of our shared code – while things like signed contribution agreements and copyright audits may seem like they are not in the spirit of “open and fun” – these things are what allows us to truly be open and freely work together.
They say that “from time to time the tree of freedom must be refreshed by patriots” – In intellectual property, “from time to time in an open source project “the cleanliness of the IP must be refreshed from time to time with a number of E-Mails and a bunch of small commits”.
I just cleaned up a lot of lax and unintentional poor IP practice over the past four days and I very much appreciate everyone’s cooperation and understanding as the commits rolled by.
The good news is that our IP is *much cleaner* now than it was for Sakai 2.5. There is more work to do – after my informal audit – the Foundation will be hiring experts to do a formal audit.
Here is my report to the community – sent to the dev list.