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 38199139085 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2017 19:19:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9EEE822419A; Mon, 16 Jan 2017 19:19:19 +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 57E2A224199 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2017 19:19:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 10820 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2017 19:19:18 -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 19:19:18 -0000 X-Assp-Version: 2.5.3(16294) on assp1.obsidian-studios.com X-Assp-ID: assp1.obsidian-studios.com m1-94358-04985 X-Assp-Session: 325556375E0 (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 14:19:18 -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 14:19:17 -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="nextPart10534284.GKi3yFS9fc"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 6f3a8967-1603-4b57-ac76-fa1d996a72f3 X-Archives-Hash: 45d7a9b7e5fd933d7321422548c26a94 --nextPart10534284.GKi3yFS9fc Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Monday, January 16, 2017 1:19:49 PM EST Rich Freeman wrote: > > How would somebody sue "Gentoo" when Gentoo is just a trademark of > SPI? There would be no legal entity called Gentoo to sue. That's the > whole point. If somebody wants to sue SPI then that becomes SPI's > problem, though obviously as a project we would cooperate with them to > minimize this risk. Rather than sue the SPI, any action would likely be taken directly against = an=20 individual rather than go after the SPI for something Gentoo related. I do not believe the SPI will provide any legal indemnification or protecti= on=20 to Gentoo developers. The Gentoo Foundation can serve to indemnify, but mak= ing=20 the Foundation target of any legal action rather than the individual. With = the=20 exception of criminal laws, as no entity can indemnify against criminal=20 charges. There are many good reason to have a Gentoo Foundation. Legal protection of= =20 the Developers via indemnification is just one. =2D-=20 William L. Thomson Jr. --nextPart10534284.GKi3yFS9fc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EABECAB0WIQTEeldqZjmVut8bVHJNcbKkg6ozUAUCWH0ctQAKCRBNcbKkg6oz UAujAKCiM/YUTZ9A+DjY2h9OZPy5c+3L2ACfUWUeS8XOdETTkavWzb8rlQ2rLps= =n2MS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart10534284.GKi3yFS9fc--