On Monday, January 16, 2017 11:56:43 AM EST Rich Freeman wrote:
> 
> And nobody really has a choice about whether they'll handle lawsuits.
> If you own property, then you better have a plan for handling
> lawsuits.  I suspect that SPI has thought this through a bit more than
> we have historically.

The SPI is not a legal management entity. You are confusing fiscal with legal.
 
> In any case, the point is that if Gentoo moves under SPI then there
> would be no "Gentoo" to sue.  "Gentoo" would be a trademark of SPI.
> Any copyrights on our works that are held centrally would belong to
> SPI.  Our money would be stored in SPI bank accounts.  So, if you want
> our stuff, you have to sue SPI.

Completely WRONG!

"Project Independence
SPI does not own, govern or control the associated projects."
http://www.spi-inc.org/projects/relationship/

> The whole point of SPI is to free up numerous FOSS projects to be able
> to do things like spend money and have trademarks without all the
> overhead of running their own foundations to do these sorts of things.

NO! It is just handling the money, accounting, banking, tax compliance, etc.
It is NOT legal...

How many times do I need to say it? 
You are incorrect as to your assumptions about the SPI.

-- 
William L. Thomson Jr.