Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> writes: > the CCC e.V. association OTOH was formed as a legal entity to protect > individuals.
To be clear, this sort of outcome may well be the correct outcome of "give Debian legal existence." In other words, the goal doesn't need to be to form a non-profit with the name "Debian," and it may well be wiser to have multiple organizations for different legal domains. The desired outcome from my perspective is just that if one is doing work on Debian in a country where legal liability is a concern, that work is being done under the auspices of some sort of organization that provides a liability shield so that Debian Developers aren't individually liable for everything Debian does, including things they had nothing to do with. Obviously if the law doesn't work that way in your jurisdiction, your jurisdiction may not require any such organization. But my understanding is that the law *does* work that way in the US, and possibly some other countries. And I do not believe (although I would be delighted to be corrected if I'm wrong) that Software in the Public Interest currently provides that sort of liability shield for Debian in the US. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>