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On 2011.08.19 07:50, Duncan wrote: |
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> Roy Bamford posted on Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:41:15 +0100 as excerpted: |
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[snip] |
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> > Just as long as we can provide the patch sets for a period of at |
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> least |
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> > three years, in case someone asks. Thats a GPL requirement. |
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> > Thats not to say the files need to be online but Gentoo needs to be |
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> able |
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> > to provide them on request. |
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[snip] |
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> I know I didn't follow up to ensure it was done. I hope someone did. |
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> FWIW, the legal responsibility would (AFAIK) fall on the foundation, |
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> so it would presumably be their job to ensure this was done, and |
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> from that point, that previous media were taken down in a timely |
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> manner so as not to get Gentoo in that situation once again. |
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[snip] |
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> -- |
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> Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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> and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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That's a very interesting point. |
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As far as I am aware, under the current organisation there is no legal |
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connection between the Gentoo Foundation Inc., and the Gentoo |
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distribution. |
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The Foundation is a legally constituted NFP, registered in New Mexico. |
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Gentoo the distro, has no legal body status at all, anywhere in the |
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world. |
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You could make an argument that the Foundation 'owns' Gentoo as the |
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Gentoo produced codebase is copyright the Gentoo Foundation Inc. |
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However ownership is irrelevant. It does not confer control. |
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Control rests with the council, who have no legal ties to the |
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Foundation. |
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Think of it as in this example. A member of the English aristocracy |
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owns a Rolls Royce. It is kept in a garage at chauffeurs cottage so |
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the chauffeur is the registered keeper of the car. |
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One day, the car driven by the chauffeur is involved in a accident and |
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someone is killed. Who is prosecuted for the death, the owner or the |
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chauffeur? |
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Well, the owner was clearly not in control (he wasn't driving). |
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The total separation of 'ownership' and 'control' of Gentoo is |
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fundamentally broken for the same reasons. Enough of it here, its an |
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active thread on -project just now. |
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Regards, |
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Roy Bamford |
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