Re: [gentoo-project] Foundation meeting agenda for April 2018

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

Dnia 9 kwietnia 2018 06:39:22 CEST, zlg <zlg@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
>On Sun, Apr 08, 2018 at 11:42:01PM -0400, Virgil Dupras wrote:
>> On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 20:29:27 -0700
>> zlg <zlg@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > Why should a group -- who holds no legal, social, or practical
>> > responsibility -- be trusted to lead the efforts of an
>organization?
>> 
>> Since Gentoo's CoC is strongly based on Debian, maybe we could look
>at Debian's constitution for clues on this and ask ourselves why it
>says in section 9 [1]:
>> 
>> > 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.
>> 
>> Maybe that this type of separation of concerns worked well for them?
>Maybe it can work well for Gentoo?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Virgil Dupras
>> 
>> [1] https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution#item-9
>> 
>
>Separating concerns may work, but not without a real, legally binding
>contract that both parties consent to and abide by. Otherwise, the
>Foundation takes on all the legal and financial risk and gets nothing
>for it.

And that is what it's called not-for-profit. They volunteer to help others and want nothing in return.

>
>An affirmation from the two parties is not a binding contract. I would
>support one if it was equitable and enforceable, i.e. not GLEP 39. If
>the relationship is reduced to business, then the Council should offer
>something in return.


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Best regards,
Michał Górny (by phone)