On 17:55 Fri 06 Jun , William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 14:13 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > On 15:53 Fri 06 Jun , William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > > http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/about.shtml > > > > > > "The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated > > > to supporting the FreeBSD Project." > > > > > > It's clear the that BSD Foundation is directly tied to the BSD project. > > > I am not sure what you are reading to thing otherwise. > > > > I looked through the articles of incorporation and the bylaws, under the > > documents section of their website. Nowhere is mentioned anything > > related to how the project itself is governed. > > So we would be different from BSD in this regard. Are we trying to be > like others? Our current structure is unlike any others. Our entire > distro is unlike any other. So why are we trying to compare apples to > oranges?
Like comparing Gentoo to a single-brained animal with multiple heads? No comparisons are perfect, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to learn from them because we're so unique. > Where is BSD's GLEP 39? Or where is their council talked about or > mentioned? Some related pages: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/dev-model/index.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/dev-model/model-orgstruct.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/dev-model/sect-hats.html#ROLE-CORE http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/dev-model/process-core-election.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/dev-model/process-reactions.html > > It's very much a > > boilerplate template saying "we're a nonprofit related to computers, and > > that's about it." > > Instead of all this speculation. Would you all like me to open a dialog > with the BSD folks and get details from within? With regard to how their > foundation and project relate to each other. > > As for their Bylaws, if they aren't cover things we are. Is that reason > for us to omit those things from ours? > > The BSD foundation doesn't seem to be accounting for sponsors services > and etc. Does that mean we should not either? Possibly but that > particular decision should be made by a Certified Public Accountant. > Which I don't think any Gentoo Developer is currently. It might be part of restricted income contributions on the profit & loss report. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
