From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 42DA31382C5 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2018 15:54:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 42989E086D; Mon, 9 Apr 2018 15:54:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tsukuyomi.43-1.org (tsukuyomi.43-1.org [IPv6:2a01:4f8:173:743::1:50]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EFCCBE0864; Mon, 9 Apr 2018 15:54:03 +0000 (UTC) From: Matthias Maier To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org, gentoo-nfp@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-nfp] Re: [gentoo-project] Foundation meeting agenda for April 2018 In-Reply-To: <20180408202704.p3f6ktidjnbfb7co@gentoo.org> (Matthew Thode's message of "Sun, 8 Apr 2018 15:27:04 -0500") References: <20180408202704.p3f6ktidjnbfb7co@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 10:53:55 -0500 Message-ID: <87lgdwqsto.fsf@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-nfp@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-nfp@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 30fc8afc-fa41-49de-9ae6-59ec2d8a0abf X-Archives-Hash: a7c1b4e8df8690c8829d8854f767856f --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Matthew, I would like to reiterate our request with a slightly modified version. On Sun, Apr 8, 2018, at 15:27 CDT, Matthew Thode wrote: > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > If you have any additions you wish to make, please submit it to the > gentoo-nfp list at least 48 hours before the meeting is to take place. We request the Board of Trustees to make the following motion part of their next meeting agenda, we will ask for a formal vote by council at the next council meeting: We request that the Board of Trustees of the Gentoo Foundation and the Gentoo Council affirm Gentoo's metastructure GLEP 39 as the governing=20= =20 principle of the Gentoo Linux developer community. In particular, both acknowledge the intended (non-exclusive) split between - the Gentoo Developer community, currently lead by the Gentoo Counci= l, which is responsible for the developer community, its user base and all technical development decisions, - and the Gentoo Foundation, whose role is to hold Gentoo's assets (such as trademarks and server infrastructure) and support the developer and user community. Although the Board of Trustees exercises its own independent judgment on every decision, it generally carries out requests from the community. Rationale: (a) We merely want to reaffirm the current status quo, that is specifically: * GLEP 39: https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0039.html * https://www.gentoo.org/inside-gentoo/foundation/ "" In order to sustain the current quality and development swiftness the Gentoo project needs a framework for intellectual property protection and financial contributions while limiting the contributors=E2=80=99 = legal exposure. The Gentoo Foundation will embody this framework without intervening in the Gentoo development. This latter aspect should be seen as a clear separation between coordinating the Gentoo development and protecting Gentoo=E2=80=99s assets. Both are distinct concepts re= quiring different skills and working methods. "" (b) This separation has worked well for many open source projects, exemplarily we mention * https://www.spi-inc.org/ * https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution#item-9 "" An organisation holding assets for Debian has no authority regarding Debian's technical or nontechnical decisions, except that no decision by Debian with respect to any property held by the organisation shall require it to act outside its legal authority. "" (c) It is legally not possible for quite a number of Gentoo developers to have an office status or board member status in the Gentoo Foundation. This is because quite a number of employers in academia and industry view this as a conflict of interest. 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