A Document Foundation acaba de recibir o recoñecemento oficial de existencia como entidade legal radicada na Alemaña.
O máis importante é que se traduciron a termos legais os principios de funcionamento do software libre polo que constitúe o máis importante exemplo en Europa e un modelo de entidadade legal, única, indepedente de calquera empresa ou particular ou grupo. Unicamente autocentrado na súa propia comunidade. 2012/2/20 Florian Effenberger <[email protected]>: > The Document Foundation officially incorporated in Berlin, Germany > > New entity has been legally created on February 17th, 2012 > German Stiftung to provide strong and enduring rights for the LibreOffice > community > > Berlin, February 20th, 2012. The Document Foundation today announces that it > has been officially incorporated in the state of Berlin, Germany. The legal > form of the entity is a German "rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen > Rechts", a form based on the governance model the LibreOffice community has > chosen. On Friday afternoon, February 17th, the incorporation certificate, > signed by the state secretary, has been handed over by the authorities. With > this legal act, the entity officially came to life and is legally > recognized. > > A picture shortly after the reception of the incorporation certificate, and > a copy of the certificate itself, is available at > http://tdfsc.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/incorporation2.png > The legally binding German version of the statutes are available at > http://www.documentfoundation.org/satzung.pdf > For convenience, an English translation of the statutes, which is not > legally binding, is available at > http://www.documentfoundation.org/statutes.pdf > > "We are proud of having achieved this major milestone. During the last > months, we have been working extensively to incorporate the bylaws into > legally binding statutes, to provide a stable and safe basis for our future" > said Thorsten Behrens, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the new Foundation. > He adds: "Our primary focus was on the membership element. Those who are > approved members have inalienable, strong rights, embedded into the > statutes. Since we have been aiming to be a German Stiftung, those rights > are guaranteed by law, and enforced by the authorities. The Document > Foundation is the legal affirmation of the community spirit - an entity by > the community, for the community, and an entity independent from any single > vendor." > > Michael (Mike) Schinagl, a Berlin-based lawyer who has been working on the > incorporation process, explained: "The creation of such a Foundation is > unique in the history of free software. There are not many, if any, entities > that guarantee such strong rights to active contributors. Embedding those > into legal language was a tremendous task, but one that was very worthwile. > The Foundation and its statutes provide the ideal grounds for a free office > ecosystem, including users, developers, marketeers, adopters, service > providers and many, many more, and they can serve as an example for other > communities with similar goals." > > The donor is the German nonprofit association Freies Office Deutschland > e.V., formerly OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V., which acted as interim legal > entity from the very beginning. Thomas Krumbein, its Chairman, is grateful: > "Our sincere thanks goes out to the Berlin authorities for their helpful > cooperation in the past months, and for their flexibility and enormous > support in achieving the community’s goals. Berlin has definitely made a > landmark decision by approving The Document Foundation. Freies Office > Deutschland e.V. is proud to be the donor of this important entity, and we > look forward to working together with the new Foundation to the benefit of > all users and contributors." > > André Schnabel, Chairman of the Membership Committee, stated the > Foundation’s openness: "I am sure we will see the community prospering and > growing even more, now that the legal entity has been created. Finally, > after nearly 12 years, the community has created a Foundation that ideally > fits to its needs, that is vendor-neutral, that provides safety, builds > trust, and that sends out a strong sign of stability to all stakeholders. I > would like to repeat our honest invitation to everyone interested in the > future of free office suites, to join The Document Foundation, no matter if > you are an individual volunteer, employee of a software vendor or support > our activities with help from local non-profit organizations." > > The home of The Document Foundation is at http://www.documentfoundation.org > LibreOffice, the free office suite, has its home at > http://www.libreoffice.org > > Note to editors: A "Stiftung" is a German Foundation established with an > endowment and supported by state authorities. See > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_%28non-profit%29#Germany for more > details. In addition, "bürgerlichen Rechts" indicates it is a fully > independent Foundation with long-term intent and independent finances. > > > Media Contacts for The Document Foundation > > Florian Effenberger (based near Munich, Germany, UTC+1) > Phone: +49 8341 99660880 > Mobile: +49 151 14424108 > E-mail: [email protected] > Skype: floeff > > Olivier Hallot (based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, UTC-3) > Mobile: +55 21 88228812 > E-mail: [email protected] > > Charles H. Schulz (based in Paris, France, UTC+1) > Mobile: +33 6 98655424 > E-mail: [email protected] > > Italo Vignoli (based in Milan, Italy, UTC+1) > Phone: +39 02 320621813 > Mobile: +39 348 5653829 > E-mail: [email protected] > Skype: italovignoli > Google Talk: [email protected] > > > Media Contact for Freies Office Deutschland e.V. > > Thomas Krumbein (based in Wiesbaden, Germany, UTC+1) > Phone: +49 611 1885339 > E-mail: [email protected] > Web: http://www.frodev.org > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted -- Antón Méixome - TDF member 105 Blog about Galician Office Suite Galician community OOo.org & LibO http://blog.openoffice.gl -- Correo a [email protected] para saber como desubscribirse O arquivo está dispoñible en http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/gl/discuss/ As mensaxes enviadas a esta lista terán arquivo público, non se poderán borrar
