On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 03:44:13PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > martin f krafft <madduck@debconf.org> writes: > > also sprach Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> [2014-04-25 23:21 +0200]: > >> I of course have no say in the decision of whether the Debian > >> trademark gets used in this way - that's for the DPL - but I just > >> wanted to note that having the money routed through legal > >> frameworks *not* called "Debian" has never been a problem in the > >> past. > > I also don't think the difference will be hugely noticeable, but > > you actually don't know if ever there has been a "problem". > I don't know either for other years or other members of the sponsorship > team, but for DC13 this has never been a problem in my conversations > with sponsors. I would be very surprised if the name of the organization > matters as long as you are allowed to contact the in the name of DebConf > (and with this to some extent also in the name of Debian). Right, this is my point. Not having the organization named "Debian" does not prevent the sponsorship team from saying "Debian" during the sponsorship process; and no one has ever reported that there was a problem where a sponsor has committed and then been unwilling to pay because of the name on the invoice. If someone runs into problems raising sponsorship funds because the non-profit umbrella is named "DebConf" instead of "Debian", I submit that they're doing it wrong. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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