Re: [gentoo-trustees] October 8th Meeting attendance

[Corey Shields]

I will be in on this meeting..   The stuff I would like to talk/hear about 
have been mentioned.  The most important on my mind right now is the signing 
over of the copyright from Gentoo Technologies to the Gentoo Foundation

Cheers,

-Corey

On Sunday 03 October 2004 04:07 pm, John Davis wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 15:43 -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> > That's why I'd recommend that *you guys* (the trustees) actually write
> > the legal documentation, and simply use your new legal counsel to ensure
> > that what you have written is legal and sufficiently comprehensive.
> > Working the other way (explaining to a lawyer how the Gentoo project
> > works, then asking them to write an appropriate legal document) is not
> > very effective, and I'd expect this to be the case even if Lawrence
> > Lessig himself were writing the document. The lawyer will not have
> > sufficient understanding of the particular needs of Gentoo. The trustees
> > have the experience necessary to write a comprehensive document. Someone
> > unfamiliar with the Gentoo project does not.
>
> I am checking with [Redacted] to make sure that the document is availble
> for us to make revisions to it before it becomes "official". I doubt
> that her firm will have problems with this request, but I am just making
> sure.
>
> > You know what the document is supposed to do - and if in some areas you
> > do not, it is ultimately you who must decide what it is supposed to do
> > anyway, not the lawyer's. The lawyer's job should be to make sure that
> > the document holds legal water.
>
> That is what we are going to try and do :)
>
> > Anyway, that's my 2 cents :)
>
> Thanks for your input Daniel! It always helps to have someone with
> pertinent experience to offer input.
>
> Regards,

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Corey Shields
Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Team and Devrel Team
Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees
http://www.gentoo.org/~cshields

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