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On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:10:48AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > The Foundation cannot engage any legal contract on the behalf of any Gentoo |
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> > developer, not even on behalf of its members or board members. |
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> This is totally contradictory to what you said above. A license granted |
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> to the Foundation *is* a legal contract. |
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It is not contradictory. |
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> Are you saying that even though someone could grant us a license that it |
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> holds absolutely no value? Does this mean we have exactly zero means of |
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> getting licenses or engaging in partnerships with other companies? |
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No, it means that if the Gentoo Foundation gets a redistribution license |
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from a third party that Gentoo can redistribute. If a developer abuses this |
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trust and redistributes it personally (not by Gentoo) he is in error. In |
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that case, the third party can blame (read: sue) the developer but not the |
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Gentoo Foundation (unless the Gentoo Foundation has deliberately wrongfully |
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misinformed that developer in which case it is the Foundation's liability). |
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But the Gentoo Foundation cannot engage a legal contract on the behalf of |
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any Gentoo developer - with which I mean that the Gentoo Foundation can not |
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see the (volunteering) developers as employees and has therefore no power |
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over them. |
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This is how most NPOs function. |
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Sven Vermeulen |
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