Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> writes: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 09:41:49AM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: >> Currently, the Project has no legal standing of its >> own, meaning that within any legal context, there is no Project. > > Indeed, it is a great feature of Debian that it is not bound to any > particular juridiction, it only exists through consensus of its members. > >> You can't donate to Debian, you donate to some other organization (SPI). The >> DPL can represent the Project only formally, as formally, it doesn't >> exist yet. The Project can't own hardware directly, or hold copyrights >> directly. It's all down to individuals. > >> A common pattern to address this within the open source world is to >> create a non-profit legal entity, e.g. the FSF Foundation or the GNOME >> Foundation. > > But a legal entity would be registered to some country (the US in the > above two cases) and would be bound to its juridiction. > What if the DPL is from some country under US sanction list like Cuba > used to ? What if we need the non-us archive back ? > (same, replacing US by the country of your choice) ? > > If there was a single Debian foundation, Debian members would be split > between those that are in the juridiction of the foundation and those > that are not and the former would be inevitably advantaged. Would moving such an entity in the face of adverse legal conditions, if and when they arise, be a difficult operation? (I have absolutely no idea myself) -- Gard
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