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 06888139085 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2017 17:35:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E4A5721C08D; Mon, 16 Jan 2017 17:35:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail1.obsidian-studios.com (mail.obsidian-studios.com [173.230.135.215]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9D8C621C08C for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2017 17:35:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 9323 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2017 17:35:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO assp1.obsidian-studios.com) (wlt@::ffff:127.0.0.1) by ::ffff:127.0.0.1 with ESMTPA; 16 Jan 2017 17:35:15 -0000 X-Assp-Version: 2.5.3(16294) on assp1.obsidian-studios.com X-Assp-ID: assp1.obsidian-studios.com m1-88115-12379 X-Assp-Session: 3255579AEF0 (mail 1) X-Assp-Envelope-From: wlt-ml@o-sinc.com X-Assp-Intended-For: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org X-Assp-Server-TLS: yes Received: from unknown ([fdbe:bad:a55:0:1::211] helo=wlt.localnet) by assp1.obsidian-studios.com with SMTPSA(TLSv1_2 ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256) (2.5.3); 16 Jan 2017 12:35:15 -0500 From: "William L. Thomson Jr." To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Formally have Council oversee the Foundation 2.0 Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 12:35:11 -0500 Message-ID: Organization: Obsidian-Studios, Inc. User-Agent: KMail/5.3.3 (Linux/4.7.5-gentoo; KDE/5.28.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <1604622.bZRWYHrp25@pinacolada> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart16496434.bUXdiz0zDC"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 215c8ce2-3583-4aa2-9790-95005aeb4185 X-Archives-Hash: 20594d9e8b65eb98e3b06eef4f3d2c79 --nextPart16496434.bUXdiz0zDC Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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. --nextPart16496434.bUXdiz0zDC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EABECAB0WIQTEeldqZjmVut8bVHJNcbKkg6ozUAUCWH0ETwAKCRBNcbKkg6oz UKCbAKCkjQG2swc4ThGjzWJ/2puMnWINOgCghE+scEFRz152YqNKy24dtKNtlu8= =yJl7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart16496434.bUXdiz0zDC--