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>>>>> On Wed, 28 Mar 2018, Daniel Robbins wrote: |
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> GLEP 39 has absolutely no legal standing. It is a fantasy document |
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> compared to the actual authority of the trustees. |
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The developer community has accepted it and voluntarily adheres to it. |
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As long as that is the case, I think that we need not care about its |
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legal status. |
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> Sure, the Trustees have no authority over these volunteers -- as |
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> long as they are not operating under the Gentoo name, Gentoo |
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> infrastructure, Gentoo repos, not using the Gentoo logo, Gentoo |
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> domains, etc. They are totally free to leave the project which is |
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> run by the Trustees, and then the trustees have no authority over |
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> them. But as long as they are on a project called "Gentoo Linux", |
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> the trustees have the authority to remove assholes from the project |
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> if they so desire. |
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Maybe that is the case in the United States of America. But for |
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example, the Foundation doesn't hold the Gentoo trademark in |
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Europe [1]. |
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Also, what's in a name? Even if a fork would stick to penguin species, |
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it could pick from about 20 of them. :) |
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Ulrich |
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[1] https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/005275714 |
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