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On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 12:44 PM, Daniel Robbins <drobbins@××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 10:41 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 11:38 AM, Daniel Robbins <drobbins@××××××.org> |
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>> wrote: |
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>> > Sure, the Trustees have no authority over these volunteers -- as long as |
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>> > they are not operating under the Gentoo name, Gentoo infrastructure, |
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>> > Gentoo |
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>> > repos, not using the Gentoo logo, Gentoo domains, etc. They are totally |
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>> > free |
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>> > to leave the project which is run by the Trustees, and then the trustees |
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>> > have no authority over them. But as long as they are on a project called |
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>> > "Gentoo Linux", the trustees have the authority to remove assholes from |
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>> > the |
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>> > project if they so desire. |
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>> I'm sorry, was this supposed to represent the pro-openness side of the |
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>> debate? |
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> I have no agenda here other than to enlighten those who don't really |
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> understand the concept of Trustees. I am not part of any debate regarding |
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> mailing lists, etc. |
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Honestly, I think this is largely moot in practice because when it |
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comes to passing actual resolutions I haven't really seen either the |
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Council or Trustees going into open conflict, and I think this is |
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unlikely. Sure, there is the strong opinion here or there, but most |
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involved are fairly reasonable when they put their voting hats on. |
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In any case, it is a situation I'd love to see resolved in the |
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long-term precisely because of the possibility of the sorts of |
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conflict you are bringing up here. A court would almost certainly see |
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it the way you're arguing, but with an all-volunteer effort dealing |
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with FOSS there are a lot of practical limits on what a court can do. |
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In the US at least justice costs money. And a court isn't really |
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going to do much more than bless trademark takedowns of websites |
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should those even be sought, since the most important assets the |
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Foundation owns (copyrights) are already open to a large degree with |
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our FOSS licensing. |
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IMO we really should embrace this as much as possible and take |
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advantage of this, by trying to minimize the stuff we do in-house |
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under the "Gentoo" umbrella and thus minimize our expenses and the |
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legal compliance issues that go along with them. |
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Rich |
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