On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 23:50 -0400, Curtis Napier wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: MD5 > > I'm in support of having a list of devs who want to do paid support. > Anything that helps people eat is OK in my book. ;) > > On the other hand, I think we need to have the foundation run this past > our lawyer(s) and make sure we have our i's dotted and out t's crossed. > I would hate for something good like this to cause us problems down the > road.
Umm... The Foundation has zero to do with a contract between two third parties. Let me give you an example. I am currently doing paid "Gentoo work" for a company, who will remain nameless. I filled out paperwork with the company. My being a member of the Gentoo Foundation, a Trustee, or anything else, has exactly zero bearing on my being contracted, as an individual, to a company. > I know christel is consulting with an accountant about adpot-a-dev, > maybe she can throw this in as well? Do we have to do some special law-abiding dance to have sponsors listed on the site? What about advertisers? What Christel is researching is the tax law related to individuals receiving gifts. It has no bearing on the Foundation itself. Let's look at this another way. We have advertisers that sell Gentoo servers and Gentoo-based services. How exactly is this any different? Is it because they're developers? How does that matter? In the end, the contract is entirely between two third-party entities, the developer, and whomever contracts him. It isn't like the Foundation is offering services. It isn't. The individual developers are offering services. The Foundation is not any of our employer. We are not bound by any legal contract to the Foundation, and it has no ties to us. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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