On Thu, 12 Jan 2017, Paul Jakma wrote:
+Governance {#sec:governance}
+==========
+
+The governance of Quagga is currently in flux.
+
+Quagga was forked from GNU Zebra by Paul Jakma, who holds the domain name.
+Governance was soon devolved to a collective group, the maintainers.
+
+Governance at this moment is again fully in the hands of Paul Jakma, to be
+recast.
+
+Holding of project assets
+-------------------------
+
+One or more mature, independent trustees, with technical and free software
+experience, will be appointed as the executor(s) for key assets of the
+project to ensure continuity, such as the domain name.
+
+Should a corporate vehicle ever be created to hold such assets it __must__:
+
+* Publish up to date accounts on a regular business.
+* Generally operate openly and transparently.
+* Have control distributed, with a significant degree of control held
+ independent of any contributors with business interests in the software.
+* Carry out no other business itself that may be seen to conflict or compete
+ with the business of others in the community.
+* Have all officers disclose all interests that could be
+ seen to have a bearing on the project, as far as is reasonable.
+
+It not clear at this time that the overheads and potential liabilities of
+such a vehicle would be appropriate for this project. These principles
+should though still be applied, where possible, to any non-corporate body
+formed around the project.
Oh, others in the past (before the lovely manoeuvrings of '15/'16) have
made a good case for SFConservancy.org. Though:
a) It doesn't avoid having to sort out project side governance, to
interface with SFConservancy.
b) One other issue I had was that any long-term assets (e.g. domain
names) would end up stuck under US law pretty much forever more. I
would probably prefer a more local jurisdiction.
I read recently of a UK CIC (a type of UK corporate body required to act
in the public-interest) with similar aims to SFConservancy:
https://publicsoftware.eu/
(via:
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/713073/fd6db0a111ab8b7e/
/ https://lwn.net/Articles/713073/ )
Maybe an option. Assuming a community rebuilds again anyway...
regards,
--
Paul Jakma | [email protected] | @pjakma | Key ID: 0xD86BF79464A2FF6A
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Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
-- A.H. Weiler
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