Hello Wouter, On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 12:45 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Perhaps a formulation like > > Since Debian has no authority to hold money or property, any > monetary donations for the Debian Project must be made to an > organization that has been vetted by the DPL to be allowed to > handle such things in name of the Debian project, where no more > than one such organization shall be vetted per country. > > Any property in hardware, trademarks, or in copyright will be > handled by SPI, which is our legal umbrella organization in the > U.S. > > might work. This would avoid having to update the constitution every > time someone wants to create a new organization. I wonder why you open up the possibility for other organisations to keep money for Debian, but do not allow these organisations to have any non-monetary property for Debian. I know of no good reason now why an organisation other than SPI would want to hold e.g. hardware for Debian, but I also do not see a clear drawback - if we trust them with money we can trust them with servers aswell. I'd keep the possibility open to have such approved organisations hold other property since there might be a reason to do so in the future which we're now unaware of. It also keeps the constitution simple: no special casing, the list would contain organisations that Debian trusts to keep things (monetary and other) in its name. Thijs
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