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On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 10:39 PM, Matthew Thode |
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<prometheanfire@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 18-04-05 21:15:08, William Hubbs wrote: |
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>> On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 08:19:52AM -0500, Matthias Maier wrote: |
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>> *snip* |
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>> > 8. The council was requested to discuss and vote on the following motion [8] |
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>> > "The Gentoo council shall directly contact "Software in the Public Interest |
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>> > Inc." (SPI), with the intention of Gentoo becoming a SPI Associated Project, |
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>> > independent of the Gentoo Foundation." |
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>> As a newly accepted member of the Gentoo foundation, I am making sure |
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>> the trustees are aware of this agenda item. Is it ok for us to join an |
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>> alternate organization such as is being proposed? |
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> Nope, though I imagine the council already knows that (the council has |
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> requested this in the past iirc). |
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I don't think he was suggesting that the Foundation should become |
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associated with SPI, but rather the distro. The wording is a bit |
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sloppy, IMO. |
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Maybe something like this might convey what I suspect was the intent: |
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The council shall directly contact "Software in the Public Interest |
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Inc." (SPI), with the intention of the project becoming a SPI |
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Associated Project, |
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independent of the Gentoo Foundation. |
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I'd suggest a better model might be: |
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The council shall directly contact "Software in the Public Interest |
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Inc." (SPI), with the intention of the project becoming a SPI |
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Associated Project, |
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in addition to being supported by the Gentoo Foundation. |
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I think we're getting a bit hung up on the word "Gentoo" referring to |
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both a legal entity and a community/project supported by the entity. |
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Legally it only means the first. However, I can think of no legal |
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reason that the group of people associated with Gentoo couldn't also |
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associate with other legal entities, as long as Gentoo's legal rights |
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to the copyrights/trademarks are respected. That is just freedom of |
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association. |
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IMO having multiple organizations supporting the distro could be |
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beneficial. I'd concede that it would be unconventional. Legally the |
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Gentoo name would only belong to one of them, but the work itself |
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could be funded and supported via any of them. |
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If nothing else this might also be a way to reduce the workload on the |
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Foundation so that they can focus more on getting the paperwork caught |
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up vs actually having to pay for infra. |
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Rich |
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