So the reasons for this are: 1) To reduce the possibility that an individual developer might get sued since there is now a more appropriate target (There may be some legal things developers need to do to ensure this happens - watch this space) 2) To act as a focus for donations to the project which could be used to pay someone full-time to code
To give some indication as to why these people are involved: On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 10:15:23PM -0800, Adam Langley wrote: > On Sat afternoon, control of Freenet Incorporated (a 501c3 non-profit corp) > was handed over to the inital board of directors: > Ian Clarke Project coordinator. > Adam Langley Whiterose developer. > Oskar Sandberg Core developer. > Dan Magel, Esq Lawyer who shares our goals, and who generously donated his time to set up the corporation, and who can advise us on legal issues. > Scott Miller Core developer. > Steven Starr Friend of mine who also shares our goals, has experience in running this type of thing, and who may be able to secure grants etc in the future. > Brandon Wiley (absent) Core developer. Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20010219/2104c22d/attachment.pgp>
