Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: New project: Licenses

[Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>]

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>>>>> On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, Roy Bamford wrote:

>> Indeed, that's one of the two TLPs that were suggested. The past QA
>> disliked having Licenses as their subproject, though. It depends on
>> how the role of QA is defined: If it is seen as primarily technical,
>> then Licenses (which is largely non-technical) doesn't fit so well.

> ... or maybe a sub committee of the Gentoo Foundation Inc?
> because of the non technical and legal implications of the work.
> Trustees get involved with licence corner cases anyway, so a team of 
> advisors would be a good fit.

I'd rather avoid the term "advisors", because we're no lawyers and
therefore cannot give any legal advice.

It it clear that in some cases the licenses team will escalate issues
to the trustees and not to the council. Nevertheless, I see a project
(TLP or sub-project) as a good enough fit. So no need to invent new
structures for us. The main goal of having a project page is to
increase our visibility and to have a convenient starting point for
organising our information in the wiki.

Ulrich

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