On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 07:42 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 15 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > After looking at some of the discusion at: > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-644321.html > > I saw there that gentoo's charter had been pulled. > > > > What does that actually mean? And who is such a charter with? > > The charter is a legal document filed with the State of New Mexico, it's > the document that permits the Gentoo Foundation to exist as a legal > entity. Because of unfiled paperwork etc etc the charter is no longer > current and valid, and the Gentoo Foundation does not exist as a legal > entity. On a code basis, it means that the Gentoo "G" logo, all ebuilds > in the tree and portage itself now are not owned by anyone. Of course > this is a dangerous position for those copyrights and logos to be in.
I thought it was only the legal document that allowed "Gentoo Technologies" to be a not-for-profit organisation? The logo's, domain name, etc. were transferred to Gentoo Technologies before they applied for 501(c)(6) Not-For-Profit status, which required a Board of Trustees. IANAL but can't you exist without a legal paper? -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> How many QA engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? 3: 1 to screw it in and 2 to say "I told you so" when it doesn't work. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
