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Le 2010-10-20 04:41, Gianluca Turconi a écrit :
Il 20/10/2010 9.53, Sebastian Spaeth ha scritto:

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There is no reason why there could not be a proper foundation that acts
as custodian for e.g. technical infrastructure, and holds eventual
trademarks and decides on licensing policies for these etc. and a wider
council that is composed of all contributors.

Nah... it's a legal nightmare.

Some people (Foundation's members) would have all duties and other
people (outside supporters with vote in the steering council) all rights
and no duty.

I think in this case, no individuals, but the foundation would hold the rights.


Liability is not just a word when decisions are made.

There is no reason why decisions like "which GUI to adopt" etc cannot be
voted on by a wider community (which is organized and blessed by the
TDF).

That's another matter.

The members of the Foundation can decide that some kind of problems can
be solved even by a public poll.

However, the *members* of the *Foundation* *decide*. Of course, it's so
*if* this foundation has to have a steering role in the community, only.

I agree with this concept but more like this: The Document Foundation would have more of a steering role in the community and the projects underneath become more members of their respective projects. In this case LibO. Pyramid style with the Foundation at the top.

Marc


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