On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 03:35:26PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > Hello Wouter, > On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 12:45 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Perhaps a formulation like > > > > Since Debian has no authority to hold money or property, any > > monetary donations for the Debian Project must be made to an > > organization that has been vetted by the DPL to be allowed to > > handle such things in name of the Debian project, where no more > > than one such organization shall be vetted per country. > > > > Any property in hardware, trademarks, or in copyright will be > > handled by SPI, which is our legal umbrella organization in the > > U.S. > > > > might work. This would avoid having to update the constitution every > > time someone wants to create a new organization. > > I wonder why you open up the possibility for other organisations to keep > money for Debian, but do not allow these organisations to have any > non-monetary property for Debian.
Mainly because SPI was set up by Debian to be more than just a wallet; they also cooperate with lawyers to do legal counseling, and are officially our legal umbrella organization. Other such organizations would not necessarily have the same; and I don't think it's going to be problematic to have money owned by one organization but hardware by another. Not sure, though; perhaps this might require information from other people. > I know of no good reason now why an organisation other than SPI would > want to hold e.g. hardware for Debian, but I also do not see a clear > drawback - if we trust them with money we can trust them with servers > aswell. I'd keep the possibility open to have such approved > organisations hold other property since there might be a reason to do so > in the future which we're now unaware of. > > It also keeps the constitution simple: no special casing, the list would > contain organisations that Debian trusts to keep things (monetary and > other) in its name. Just for clarity, I'm not going to support maintaining a list as part of the constitution; such a list should be outside of it. -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
