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* [gentoo-nfp] Re: [gentoo-project] Foundation meeting agenda for April 2018
  @ 2018-04-09 15:53 99% ` Matthias Maier
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From: Matthias Maier @ 2018-04-09 15:53 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-project, gentoo-nfp

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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 <prometheanfire@gentoo.org> wrote:

> =======
> 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  
  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 Council,
        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’ 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’s assets. Both are distinct concepts requiring
      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.


Best,
Matthias and Andreas

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