On 11/10/2010 01:09 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > 2010/11/9 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"<johannbg@xxxxxxxxx>: >> On 11/09/2010 11:13 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: >>>> Would it be granted equal amount of seats to appoint members or more that is >>>> if it funded more and would it have the rights to appoint the veto member ( >>>> FPL )? >>> If we were to have a sponsor of equivalent stature to Red Hat, >>> undoubtedly as terms of such sponsorship (or really membership if to >>> be considered equal), the layout of the Board and privileges would get >>> re-evaluated. Given no one is stepping forward to offer several $M >>> US, I don't want to travel too far down this hypothetical scenario. >> Hum not following you're reasoning here I would think the layout of the >> board and privileges would need to exist before hand but not get >> re-evaluated afterwards for those wanting to become members equivalent >> stature to Red Hat and willing to aid in future grow of the project. > To put it simply.. at the point where a company, organization, > demigod, etc were to say it wanted to put in large amounts of > resources into Fedora then there would be the need for a legal > arrangement to be done. The funding would have to be ongoing versus > one-term, there would be assumption of liability issues, and various > other legal requirements with the probability that "Fedora" would > become some sort of new entity (corporation, non-profit) that would > fall under a legal framework of wherever that occurred. [Actually > multiple frameworks as any organization would need to be founded in > each country to deal with employment, taxes, legal rights, etc] > > At which point any present board, policies, layout of groups etc would > be completely rewritten to match laws for all such 'entities'. So > looking at current layout of anything dealing with fedora and > comparing it to a possible future becomes 'flawed'. Does that better > explain Yup. For some reason I had it in my head we already where a bit more in depended from Red Hat. JBG _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
