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I still think that we should have him sign the paperwork when the lawyer |
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finishes with it. |
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On Wed, 18 May 2005, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 13:38:22 -0500 |
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> From: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o> |
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> To: gentoo-trustees@l.g.o |
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> Subject: [gentoo-trustees] Transfer, continued |
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> |
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> Dear all, |
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> Drobbins popped into irc to talk to me about where the transfer stuff |
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> currently resides. I told him that our lawyers are still reviewing it. |
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> He's in a hurry to get things wrapped up (I believe that he's starting a |
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> new job soon), and he had a proposal: |
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> |
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> The trustees send drobbins an e-mail promising that his |
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> drobbins@g.o mail forward will be maintained as long as drobbins |
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> wishes. |
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> Drobbins' lawyer will file the trademark and copyright paperwork with |
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> the Fed by the end of the week that they are now owned by the Foundation. |
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> A copy of the paperwork will be sent to the Foundation Secretary. |
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> |
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> Drobbins will change his godaddy.com account so that the address and |
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> contact info for the gentoo.org domains are the Foundation (and provide |
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> us w/ the account name and password). It would then just be up to us to |
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> keep godaddy.com paid. |
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> Drobbins feels that this should handle the vast majority of the issues, |
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> but he's open to discuss any remaining issues in the future. |
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> Here's my view on all of this. We should promise drobbins his |
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> maintained e-mail forward regardless. Gentoo owes it to him, and if he |
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> had wanted he could have required that we change the name when the |
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> foundation was established. I'm quite grateful that he didn't do that. |
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> As for transferring the IP, drobbins owns it, so he certainly doesn't |
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> need our permission to give it to us. He can do that regardless of what |
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> we say. It will be good to ask our legal folks to check that he (and |
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> his lawyer) have done so properly, of course. |
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> Okay, feel free to flame me to a crisp now. |
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> -g2boojum- |
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Deedra Waters - Gentoo developer relations, accessibility and infrastructure - |
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dmwaters@g.o |
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