Re: Debian legal structure (was: Re: General resolution: Condemn Russian invasion of the Ukraine)

2022-04-12 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 08:59:22AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > (Folks, please change the subject line when we're talking about Debian > legal structure instead of the original topic.) Please also note that this is still -vote@ -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Debian legal structure (was: Re: General resolution: Condemn Russian invasion of the Ukraine)

2022-04-12 Thread Russ Allbery
(Folks, please change the subject line when we're talking about Debian legal structure instead of the original topic.) tytso writes: > Until 1970, the New York Stock Exchange was the oldest unincorporated > association, so there have been some very old, well understood > organizations that have

Re: DebConf and legal structure for the project

2022-04-12 Thread Russ Allbery
tytso writes: > This is a pretty well-explored problem space. There are a number of > organizations that help academic or FOSS organizations run conferences. > Examples of these include Usenix (which used to be the organization that > ran the Linux Kernel Maintainer's Summit), The Linux

Re: General resolution: Condemn Russian invasion of the Ukraine

2022-04-12 Thread tytso
On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 10:24:55AM +0200, Gard Spreemann wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 01:35:14PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > >> Debian does not exist, legally :-) > > > > and that's a feature, not a bug. > > Could you elaborate on this? We've heard arguments for why it might be a > bug –

Re: DebConf and legal structure for the project (was: General resolution: Condemn Russian invasion of the Ukraine)

2022-04-12 Thread tytso
On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 10:17:46AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Anyway, a lawyer familiar with non-profit law and with conventions (which > are fairly common for non-profit organizations) will probably have helpful > opinions about all of this and likely would be able to advise us how to > make