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From: Matthias Maier <tamiko@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Merging Trustees and Council / Developers and Foundation - 1.0 reply
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:50:14
Message-Id: 877f61bkxw.fsf@kestrel.kyomu.43-1.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Merging Trustees and Council / Developers and Foundation - 1.0 reply by "William L. Thomson Jr."
1 What about you have a closer look at for example the Debian project [1]?
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3 There, the project and its developer community is not organized in any
4 legal entity.
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6 All business that requires a legal entity is organized via *mutliple*
7 foundations [2,3] - none of which have any power over the project
8 itself.
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10 This is exactly the model we have at the moment.
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12 So what on earth is the problem?
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14 Best,
15 Matthias
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19 [1] https://www.debian.org/
20 [2] http://www.spi-inc.org/projects/debian/
21 [3] http://debian.ch/articles_of_association.pdf

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