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On Wed, 2021-07-07 at 07:32 +0300, Joonas Niilola wrote: |
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> On 7.7.2021 0.57, Matt Turner wrote: |
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> > As far as I can tell, you're the only one who has done anything |
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> > concrete towards merging the Gentoo Foundation into an umbrella |
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> > organization :( |
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> > |
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> Out of curiosity, with an umbrella organization could there be any fear |
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> for a similar takeover that happened with Freenode? |
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There will always be fear. Technically, we will sign some kind of |
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agreement with safeguards against that but I'm not convinced we'd be |
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able to legally pursue them (unless some fancy 'open source' lawyer |
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volunteers to help us). |
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That said, it's no different with Gentoo Foundation that isn't legally |
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obliged to care about Gentoo at all (and have historically refused to |
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fix that). I'm not accusing anyone, just saying that technically it is |
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possible for GF to take full control over Gentoo assets. |
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Of course, there's a good chance that they 'know better', especially |
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that the Freenode incident proved that asset ownership is no match for |
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community. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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