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Richard is Senior Commercial Counsel on the Products and Technologies team in Red Hat's legal department. Most of his work focuses on open source-related legal issues.
Richard Fontana
Richard is Senior Commercial Counsel on the Products and Technologies team in Red Hat's legal department. Most of his work focuses on open source-related legal issues.
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Diaspora has now published its contributor agreement
http://ur1.ca/1nbrj
which is a joint copyright assignment modeled on that used by Sun. Some who were enthusiastic about Diaspora are now concerned that Diaspora is pursuing an open core business model. I'd expect the consumer-ready alpha to be made available under a proprietary EULA.
That seems likely, especially given those specific examples (Linux, Apache, Python). I am sure the owners of those trademarks would not object to the kind of ordinary references that are really unavoidable in technical papers discussing the use of such software or programming languages.