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On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 07:42 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 15 January 2008, reader@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> > After looking at some of the discusion at: |
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> > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-644321.html |
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> > I saw there that gentoo's charter had been pulled. |
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> > What does that actually mean? And who is such a charter with? |
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> The charter is a legal document filed with the State of New Mexico, it's |
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> the document that permits the Gentoo Foundation to exist as a legal |
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> entity. Because of unfiled paperwork etc etc the charter is no longer |
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> current and valid, and the Gentoo Foundation does not exist as a legal |
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> entity. On a code basis, it means that the Gentoo "G" logo, all ebuilds |
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> in the tree and portage itself now are not owned by anyone. Of course |
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> this is a dangerous position for those copyrights and logos to be in. |
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I thought it was only the legal document that allowed "Gentoo |
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Technologies" to be a not-for-profit organisation? |
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The logo's, domain name, etc. were transferred to Gentoo Technologies |
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before they applied for 501(c)(6) Not-For-Profit status, which required |
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a Board of Trustees. IANAL but can't you exist without a legal paper? |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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How many QA engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? |
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3: 1 to screw it in and 2 to say "I told you so" when it doesn't work. |
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