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On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 1:08 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. |
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<wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Monday, January 16, 2017 12:59:12 PM EST Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> I'm not saying that the Gentoo Foundation should retain the legal |
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>> services of SPI. I'm saying that they should turn over their property |
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>> to SPI and cease to exist. At that point we don't need legal |
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>> services, because we legally don't exist. |
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> SPI does not want property just money. They do not own the projects or |
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> anything of the sort. SPI handles the money, that is it! |
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Uh, you obviously didn't read the link I posted earlier: |
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https://www.debian.org/trademark |
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In particular: |
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As a part of this process, the Debian trademark is a registered United |
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States trademark of Software in the Public Interest, Inc., managed by |
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the Debian project. |
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> There are no legal services of the SPI to retain. They are not a legal body. |
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SPI is certainly a legal body. They're a NY corporation: |
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http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/certificate-of-incorporation/ |
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And I'm not suggesting that they offer "legal services" or that we |
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should retain them. If we used them then legally there would be no |
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"we" to retain them in the first place. |
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Rich |
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