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Speaking more officially, less personal opinion. |
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On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 18:49 -0400, Richard Freeman wrote: |
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> Would this run into any kinds of legal issues? |
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Should prevent any. |
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> If you're not |
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> already familiar with such things you might want to talk to a lawyer. |
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As it pertains we will likely have counsel review the final Bylaws. We |
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will also solicit advice from counsel when needed regarding future |
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Bylaws revisions or other matters. |
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> I'm torn on this. In theory the council and trustees/foundation should |
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> be well-coordinated and they're really just two parts of a single |
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> effort. |
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That's the idea. Two heads, thinking doing different things |
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uncoordinated on same body? :) |
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> If we mix them we either need to formalize more of |
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> what happens, or potentially risk running into legal issues. |
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Really it's a paper formality. Daily operations do not change. Just |
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clarification of duties and separation on paper. In one document :) |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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amd64/Java/Trustees |
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Gentoo Foundation |