Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (109 mails)

[Wolfgang Rosenauer <wr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/01/2010 09:16 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> > > In which country is openSUSE registered as a not-for-profit organisation?
> > >     
> > AFAIK work on this is on its way. The board is evaluating the options.
> >   
>
> "Work on this is on its way"? Surely all this would have been done years
> ago?
> Are you suggesting that the opensuse.org thing....falls short of legal
> requirements (in any country) to be termed a not-for-profit organisation
> (ie, .org)?

Probably?
I cannot answer legal questions but not everything needs to be an
official organisation, does it?

> In any case, what is the legal basis (in whatever country) for having
> this "board"?
>
> The bottom line is: if someone were to sue openSUSE for whatever reason,
> who would they be suing in a court of law? Novell or some nebulus entity
> called "the board" created by.....[aha, the "community", right!]?

I don't see opensuse.org as an institution which can be sued right now
because it's lacking a legal status but again IANAL.

> > > Quite apart from the fact that all board members - except, perhaps, one
> > > - are employees of Novell, there is also the statement that the
> > > chairperson of the "board" is always appointed by Novell.
> > >     
> > The current board http://en.opensuse.org/Board has three Novell
> > employees and three non-Novell members.
> > Not sure where you got other information.
> >   
>
> From what Henne provided in his response-
>
> http://en.opensuse.org/Guiding_Principles
>
> which contains the link to-
>
> http://en.opensuse.org/Board

As this is the same site I got the other information from I'm wondering
what you were looking at because what you say is simply wrong.


Wolfgang
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