[Gd-hackers] Names

Peter S. Housel housel at acm.org
Wed May 2 04:13:13 CEST 2007


Bruce Hoult wrote:
> On 5/2/07, Chris Page <chris at chris-page.org> wrote:
> > On May 1, 2007, at 10:01 AM, Bastian Müller wrote:
> >
> > >   - Foundation: wouldn't like that
> >
> > Any particular reason why?
> 
> I don't know Bastian's objection, but it doesn't seem right to me to
> use terms such as "Foundation" in the absense of a legally-constituted
> governing body.

One could make the case that we need such an entity anyway.  Numerous copyright messages say "Copyright xxxx Gwydion Dylan Maintainers", which (AFAIK, IANAL) is not really enforceable without a legal entity behind the name.

-Peter-






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