Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 07:42 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 January 2008, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> > After looking at some of the discusion at:
> >  http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-644321.html
> > I saw there that gentoo's charter had been pulled.
> >
> > What does that actually mean?  And who is such a charter with?
> 
> The charter is a legal document filed with the State of New Mexico, it's 
> the document that permits the Gentoo Foundation to exist as a legal 
> entity. Because of unfiled paperwork etc etc the charter is no longer 
> current and valid, and the Gentoo Foundation does not exist as a legal 
> entity. On a code basis, it means that the Gentoo "G" logo, all ebuilds 
> in the tree and portage itself now are not owned by anyone. Of course 
> this is a dangerous position for those copyrights and logos to be in.

I thought it was only the legal document that allowed "Gentoo
Technologies" to be a not-for-profit organisation?

The logo's, domain name, etc. were transferred to Gentoo Technologies
before they applied for 501(c)(6) Not-For-Profit status, which required
a Board of Trustees.  IANAL but can't you exist without a legal paper?
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

How many QA engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

3: 1 to screw it in and 2 to say "I told you so" when it doesn't work.

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