On 11/9/19 2:52 AM, Richard Brown wrote:
Thanks Ish and the whole Election Team for their excellent work.
With this overwhelming vote in favour of keeping the name, I'd like the Board to address the following questions opened by this decision.
What sort of agreement (contract/trademark pact/copyright ownership, etc) will the Board seek with SUSE LLC to ensure the openSUSE Project will be able to continue using the term openSUSE?
What limitations will SUSE LLC impose on openSUSE as part of that agreement?
What assurances/legal guarantees will openSUSE have that SUSE LLC will not be able to change the terms or conductions of the above aggreement?
As you are well aware the board will now work through all these issues now that we know what the community wants, due to other issues we have been dealing with we haven't spent much time on it in recent. It should be worth noting as repeated many times during the discussion, currently the board see's no Legal reason why these questions couldn't be settled in a way that works well for openSUSE. Going the opposite way if the board can't get a satisfactory resolution to these question it is still possible we may propose creating the foundation under a different name and choosing not to rebrand any of the rest of project at this stage. But given the outcome of this vote I imagine that is almost certainly the board's least preferred option. Now we have a result the board will be able to start working through this. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B