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On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 14:24 -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> Deedra, |
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> Could you check with our lawyers what it is that we actually need to |
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> do to protect the Gentoo® trademark? One question is do we need to add |
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> the ® mark to all of our ebuilds in our Copyright statement? The other |
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> (at least at the moment) is if there are things that we have to be |
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> careful not to refer to as "Gentoo foo"? Presumably Gentoo Linux, |
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> Gentoo BSD, etcetera should be reasonable, but what about "the Gentoo |
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> init/runscripts system"? |
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> Also, where are we on the copyright issue? Last I heard there was a |
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> tentative document being put forward, and I suggested that we make it |
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> available for comments from our devs, but I believe that it was not yet |
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> ready for public scrutiny at that time. Has anything changed there? |
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> Dostrow, any results from sifting through the various Delaware holding |
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> companies (or whatever those organizations are called that can act as an |
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> in-state presence for a corporation)? |
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I am awaiting literature from the few I selected...they are all pretty |
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much the same but some looked more seedy then others (just a general |
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feeling from the various websites). I also sent out a letter asking for |
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any bad stuff about the few I chose to Delaware's Better Business |
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Bureau. Once I get the stuff in the mail and I see what they have got |
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I'll send a note to the foundation. |
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The incorporation itself is going to cost somewhere between $200 and |
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$300 depending on what options we choose...with 1/3 to 1/2 of that cost |
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recurring every year. Some of these companies also offer other services |
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that I think we most likely don't need but would also add to the cost. |
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These are things like shared office space for corporate meetings and |
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such. |
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> Am I currently holding things up where shifting our banking to BofA is |
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> concerned? If so, please let me know, and I'll do my best to get that |
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> fixed. |
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> We just received our first $500 check, by the way. I haven't sent it |
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> off to Netbank yet, but I'll get that done shortly. |
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> We're currently running with the "proposed bylaws", but they've never |
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> been confirmed. Do we want a general, foundation-wide vote on accepting |
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> them? If so, does anybody want to propose changes first? |
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I'd like to see this put to a vote yes...I'm pretty comfortable with the |
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wording but I'd like the lawyers to give it a once-over if they haven't |
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already. |
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> Okay, that's my thoughts for the day. |
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> Best, |
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> g2boojum |
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Daniel Ostrow |
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Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees |
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Gentoo/{PPC,PPC64,DevRel} |
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dostrow@g.o |
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