On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 07:14:50AM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: > / Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > | With definitions something like: > | > | nonprofit an organisation with a non-profit legal status under > | some law (eg. under French law "association loi 1901") > | > | informal an organisation with no legal status (eg. Debian) > > Is Debian really an informal organization in the US? I'd have guessed > they were a nonprofit, but I take your point.
SPI (spi-inc.org) is the (US) non-profit org that was created to serve as a legal frontend. It now also "hosts" Gnome, Berlin, the Linux Standard Base, etc. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Free-Software Engineer Ing�nieur Logiciel-Libre Free-Software time manager Responsable du temps Informatique-Libre Debian GNU/Linux developper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
