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Thanks for open sourcing this. I know that can be hard to get through legal and can be something that is hard for people. Great to see this!

jgrahamc 10y ago
It's dead easy to open source stuff at CloudFlare. We have an internal mailing list. Email was sent on March 11, 2016 requesting this. Everyone signed off (including legal) that day.
- jsprogrammer 10y ago
  Why the quarter delay in making the source available?
  - jgrahamc 10y ago
    We were busy doing other stuff.
    - thejameskyle 10y ago
      Heh, yeaah boss. OBVIOUSLY I do TONS of things. Where would I even begin to talk about all the things I do? There's just so many! No time to open source something with all the things I definitely do... closes 30 browser tabs
  - thejameskyle 10y ago
    Thats about how long it takes me to write a blog post :P Also I was trying to get a number of things in a good place, like https://lernajs.io/ https://lernajs.io/
thejameskyle 10y ago
CloudFlare was actually very encouraging. I emailed our internal open source legal mailing list and had responses from our CEO and Head of Product Strategy within 5 mins that were really excited about it. There was a brief concern about phishing, but that was quickly resolved. It was more difficult writing the blog post than getting legal's approval :P
- jgrahamc 10y ago
  Now, I'm hurt, James. I replied From: John Graham-Cumming Subject: Re: open sourcing cf-ui Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 07:15:56 +0000 This is fantastic! I am really happy to see open source stuff from www and would love to see this open sourced soon with a nice blog post describing why we wrote this, what the transition was like, what the components do. We've done a tremendous amount of blogging and open sourcing of systems level stuff and it's great that we can do the same here. Super to showcase all our technology. Really nice. But, oh, those guys reply and that's what you remember? :-)
  - thejameskyle 10y ago
    You weren't in that 5 min cutoff. And no excuses about being on the other side of the world
- kkirsche 10y ago
  Wow, I'm jealous. Every time I've tried to get stuff open sourced at the company I'm with I get blocked by legal usually they just don't get what the technology is, like kernel bypass PF_RING network processor :( one day. Glad to hear you had a good experience though
  - thejameskyle 10y ago
    It may be that our legal counsel is too busy making dad jokes to care about me open sourcing some JavaScript.
    - prdonahue 10y ago
      +1 can confirm
- IshKebab 10y ago
  I'm amazed that you even have an open source legal mailing list.

jgrahamc 10y ago

It's dead easy to open source stuff at CloudFlare. We have an internal mailing list. Email was sent on March 11, 2016 requesting this. Everyone signed off (including legal) that day.

jsprogrammer 10y ago
Why the quarter delay in making the source available?
- jgrahamc 10y ago
  We were busy doing other stuff.
  - thejameskyle 10y ago
    Heh, yeaah boss. OBVIOUSLY I do TONS of things. Where would I even begin to talk about all the things I do? There's just so many! No time to open source something with all the things I definitely do... closes 30 browser tabs
- thejameskyle 10y ago
  Thats about how long it takes me to write a blog post :P Also I was trying to get a number of things in a good place, like https://lernajs.io/ https://lernajs.io/

thejameskyle 10y ago

CloudFlare was actually very encouraging. I emailed our internal open source legal mailing list and had responses from our CEO and Head of Product Strategy within 5 mins that were really excited about it. There was a brief concern about phishing, but that was quickly resolved. It was more difficult writing the blog post than getting legal's approval :P

jgrahamc 10y ago
Now, I'm hurt, James. I replied From: John Graham-Cumming Subject: Re: open sourcing cf-ui Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 07:15:56 +0000 This is fantastic! I am really happy to see open source stuff from www and would love to see this open sourced soon with a nice blog post describing why we wrote this, what the transition was like, what the components do. We've done a tremendous amount of blogging and open sourcing of systems level stuff and it's great that we can do the same here. Super to showcase all our technology. Really nice. But, oh, those guys reply and that's what you remember? :-)
- thejameskyle 10y ago
  You weren't in that 5 min cutoff. And no excuses about being on the other side of the world
kkirsche 10y ago
Wow, I'm jealous. Every time I've tried to get stuff open sourced at the company I'm with I get blocked by legal usually they just don't get what the technology is, like kernel bypass PF_RING network processor :( one day. Glad to hear you had a good experience though
- thejameskyle 10y ago
  It may be that our legal counsel is too busy making dad jokes to care about me open sourcing some JavaScript.
  - prdonahue 10y ago
    +1 can confirm
IshKebab 10y ago
I'm amazed that you even have an open source legal mailing list.