Alec Warner wrote: > On 1/8/08, William L. Thomson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> To keep it short and sweet. Our current structure is FUBARed. >> >> Foundation? Trustees? Election? Nominees? Ball dropped, shall we pick it >> up and resume a game? >> >> Gentoo does not exist legally. NPO filings in New Mexico expired. Effort >> was made to do something there. But hasn't yielded any results. We need >> to get legal some where ASAP. How, where, by whom? Seems policies >> dictated or held things back in the past. Do these policies matter now? >> There is no one really to enforce said policies. >> >> Council is fine, but per the structure has nothing to do with the >> foundation. Which I personally dislike, basically means the tail of the >> snake can live without the head. Which is where we are now. >> >> We have no head, no foundation, no one overseeing it. We just have a >> body and tail. I think we can grow a new head. Hopefully a better one, >> not just resurrecting the dead/broken/mia one. But at this point >> anything is better than nothing. Which is where things are at. >> >> What about the SFC you say? Good question. No foundation, no trustees, >> no one to oversee the transition to the SFC. If that's even the >> direction we want to go in. I personally have some hang-ups, >> reservations there. >> >> Take it to -nfp you say. I did, only a couple responded. No solution, no >> change. So that didn't work. Coming back to -core to hopefully catch >> alls attention. >> >> >> We all need to do something about this sooner rather than later. I have >> been kind silent about it waiting for things to happen. Things have not >> happened, so time to kick the pig. Hope the bitch doesn't kick back, or >> it will be all ham and bacon for us. >> >> >> To do nothing is each of us slowly letting Gentoo die. If it's going to >> die, let's not mess around. Let's shoot the thing in the head or >> euthanasia. >> >> Also I am not bringing this up to do nothing. But I will only act on >> consensus and if authorized. Otherwise it's up to others with the >> authority, etc. >> > > So that was very stream of consciousness ;) > > My question to you is: > > If Gentoo no longer exists, who owns the copyrights in that case? Who > owns the money the foundation had in the bank? Is having the > foundation even necessary? > > -Alec > US Copyright law would say some stuff is Daniel Robbins' and some stuff is now Public Domain. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
