Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define "Membership" within TDF?

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