From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HVZfB-0005C5-MA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:50:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2PKmF0V008897; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:48:15 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2PKiwYs004473 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:44:58 GMT Received: from home.wh0rd.org (pool-151-203-195-204.bos.east.verizon.net [151.203.195.204]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93D4164F88 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:44:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 24178 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2007 15:40:21 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 25 Mar 2007 15:40:21 -0500 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed addition to the Social Contract Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:45:24 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <1174788467.4883.29.camel@bruichladdich> <4606D376.1060703@cesmail.net> In-Reply-To: <4606D376.1060703@cesmail.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2823558.hUA5OiIdZ9"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200703251645.25388.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: e73e1362-ec99-40d7-82d3-2dc7c8cd1a45 X-Archives-Hash: 032d024dc2b70e807e33a1039def422c --nextPart2823558.hUA5OiIdZ9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 25 March 2007, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: > > It looks like our social contract doesn't prohibit Gentoo from being > > dependent upon a single sponsor or corporation. In the interests of > > keeping Gentoo run by the developers rather than any outside party, how > > about the following addition to the Social Contract? > > > > We will be run by the Development Community > > Gentoo will be run by the development community. We will never allow > > ourselves to be reliant upon a single sponsor or corporation. > > As I understand it, Gentoo is a "tax-exempt foundation" registered in > the state of New Mexico. As a result, there are legal restrictions on > "sponsorship", etc. Before modifying the "Social Contract", I'd > recommend consulting an attorney with expertise in such matters. The > last thing Gentoo needs is major legal hassles. your information is dated ... Gentoo is not a tax-exempt foundation=20 specifically so that we dont have to worry about getting screwed when a=20 single entity decided to donate a ton of cash ... in other words, most=20 foundations choose to be a 501(c)(3) so that donaters can have tax write of= fs=20 while Gentoo is a 501(c)(1) =2Dmike --nextPart2823558.hUA5OiIdZ9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUARgbfZUFjO5/oN/WBAQLbkxAAhO2x34zXApJAYi3XOULBC2danN7+0wjj LWxyeMeMPa+jIJwhCb6vgizT6KN8WmbNpKWx/C3LnsAVIujxF91kjLZ9rMo6QcP0 ynKESTfGr6a76/kZnYrDJwH8krV6CFS2ylJP0AWgXxoEoApL2aLLN4+uX/4EzlaS P/cuhAotmXGqJ1sKel4nY5bhcDC+rAO3HqlSgW0A5yDuA7S403ay2QTcEs1XHCsw 0GNRrew2ECk7WHs2Xn5T8cbJxm50URSZ52K9HCW/2E5Bft/jQoa0d+p0h/DzJpXE Kl3HgIXeiNMAWYhDbwEHW4t0alKxRIuZOwxcwY9UpFb8MDnCI6EcpsYYOZd3kW6V hpzm3eog34wxmW912kphhsS+YYQLOivSvglE1Kzyvx3XvDJbwrrh+TLAnHlIQnTl rnslItGGg6o4KDFg3kJYBfFptpAucRMw420i0k6XzAwvFFUZc/S0a1l4igw64aWz /7PHcZRkXmdWhUqjos00Pgm1ZeIkm+vZN/+wlOBPkgmx9hjhESuFbFHjLiZE+WCA o1XzavUlx5BepNHgUa3C5/5K3rLXXFpVq+n8QlTRba428o6pK7XBUkKljXUrybKG MpybT+UFVNl/fL9UUw1Mn95J8i7Wpk0uIUjnovj3HQYp5e0qfKyDPMNaZFKzPVRW bWIC97a3Zyo= =1rAv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2823558.hUA5OiIdZ9-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list