[gentoo-trustees] [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Gentoo Linux copyright assignment form]]

[John Davis]

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From: Katie Lucas <katie@×××.org>
To: zhen@g.o
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Gentoo Linux copyright assignment form]
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:51:15 -0700

Hi John,

Wendy Seltzer passed on your request for assistance to the EFF cooperating 
attorneys list, and we found several attorneys who are available and 
interested in providing the Gentoo Foundation with legal advice.

We got positive responses from two attorneys, a law clinic, and one 
additional attorney who has relevant experience and is willing to help 
out.  I have pasted the contact information for each of the respondants 
below.  It is up to you to contact and select the attorney.

[Redacted] is "very interested."
[Redacted]
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[Redacted]
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[Redacted]
"The American University IP law clinic may be able to help with this--do 
you have any more information on this -such as time frames etc.?"
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[Redacted]
"I'm doing the same sort of thing for Apache these days. I don't have time
to take on someone else, but if you get a volunteer, I'd be interested in
sharing ideas/working with them (unofficially)."

Good luck, and please keep us updated on how this works out.

Sincerely,

Katie Lucas
Executive Assistant
Electronic Frontier Foundation
415-436-9333 x104
katie@×××.org
www.eff.org

At 04:46 PM 7/8/2004, Wendy Seltzer wrote:
>At 6:28 PM -0700 7/2/04, Ren Bucholz wrote:
>>Is this something that sounds interesting to either of you?
>
>Sounds like a good one for cooperating attorneys, so they can develop an
>ongoing relationship.
>
>Katie, I've asked coop attorneys to contact you.
>
>--Wendy
>
>
>
>>Subject: Gentoo Linux copyright assignment form
>>From: John Davis <zhen@g.o>
>>Reply-To: zhen@g.o
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>>To whom it may concern -
>>Gentoo Linux is in the process of becoming a Not-for-profit organization
>>entitled the Gentoo Foundation. The incoming Board of Trustees are in
>>the process of reviewing our legal documents to make sure that they are
>>legally sound.
>>
>>A major point of contention right now is our copyright assignment form,
>>and we are seeking legal advice from an organization or person who is
>>familiar with Intellectual Property law. If this service is not
>>something that the EFF can provide, perhaps you could point us in the
>>right direction? Thank you for your time.
>>
>>Regards,
>>//John Davis
>>Gentoo Foundation Trustee
>>
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>>John Davis
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>phone: [phone] x 125 // cell: 914.374.0613 // fax: [phone]
>Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation   http://www.eff.org/
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>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html

Thank God for the EFF :)
Trustees, with whom would you like to proceed?

Cheers,
-- 
John Davis
Gentoo Linux Developer
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen>

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