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On Monday, January 16, 2017 11:56:43 AM EST Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> And nobody really has a choice about whether they'll handle lawsuits. |
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> If you own property, then you better have a plan for handling |
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> lawsuits. I suspect that SPI has thought this through a bit more than |
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> we have historically. |
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The SPI is not a legal management entity. You are confusing fiscal with legal. |
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> In any case, the point is that if Gentoo moves under SPI then there |
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> would be no "Gentoo" to sue. "Gentoo" would be a trademark of SPI. |
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> Any copyrights on our works that are held centrally would belong to |
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> SPI. Our money would be stored in SPI bank accounts. So, if you want |
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> our stuff, you have to sue SPI. |
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Completely WRONG! |
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"Project Independence |
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SPI does not own, govern or control the associated projects." |
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http://www.spi-inc.org/projects/relationship/ |
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> The whole point of SPI is to free up numerous FOSS projects to be able |
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> to do things like spend money and have trademarks without all the |
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> overhead of running their own foundations to do these sorts of things. |
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NO! It is just handling the money, accounting, banking, tax compliance, etc. |
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It is NOT legal... |
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How many times do I need to say it? |
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You are incorrect as to your assumptions about the SPI. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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