From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JEgCr-0002gm-BT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:27:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B9F1E08DD; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:27:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (mail-out2.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48225E08C3 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:27:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.0.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3985B6C17E for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:27:07 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ? From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200801150742.39902.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <1200129071.4788842fc5816@imp.free.fr> <200801142303.49325.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <871w8jirwz.fsf@newsguy.com> <200801150742.39902.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:56:58 +0930 Message-Id: <1200382018.12251.57.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4fd839d8-4e90-44cf-9fb9-9c19c6d9821d X-Archives-Hash: 677d871fbaba4db9c67a4e731a095cab 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? -- Iain Buchanan 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. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list