Re: [gentoo-project] Merging Trustees and Council / Developers and Foundation

["Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>]

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Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2017, 10:57:49 CET schrieb William L. Thomson Jr.:
> 
> > The other side is that we can't predict worldwide legal impact, and that
> > it
> > may well be disadvantageous for someone in another country to officially
> > be
> > member of a US legal body.
> 
> US tends to be the most free and open. Most FOSS projects with a structure
> are in the US. The SPI is in the US.
> 
> Not saying there is interest, but if Gentoo was say moved to another
> country. That may further fall under export restrictions even for an open
> entity. Assets would have to be transferred etc.
> 

That's not what I mean. 

Assume it becomes illegal in a third country to be member of a US-based 
foundation. What then?

Also we're not only speaking about illegal versus legal here.

-- 
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice)

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