The whole business of orchestrating intellectual property practices for the good of our open source communities is certainly a complex beast. I’ve learned that the practices we employ to educate our community and do our due diligence on the inbound side of the IP equation have as much to do with real protection on the outbound side as the language of the license. Both are important certainly, but it’s easy to make claims in an OS license without doing the work on the inbound side to make sure you can make those claims. Sakai and Kuali are doing a lot to make sure that the claims we’re making are reliable ones. I can see in this post that you’re becoming aware of this. We can and will do more to document what we’re doing and why… and I encourage your readers to participate in the dialog as we continue to improve our practices…