On 2013.11.22 09:38, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, Roy Bamford wrote: > > >> Indeed, that's one of the two TLPs that were suggested. The past > QA > >> disliked having Licenses as their subproject, though. It depends > on > >> how the role of QA is defined: If it is seen as primarily > technical, > >> then Licenses (which is largely non-technical) doesn't fit so > well. > > > ... or maybe a sub committee of the Gentoo Foundation Inc? > > because of the non technical and legal implications of the work. > > Trustees get involved with licence corner cases anyway, so a team > of > > > advisors would be a good fit. > > I'd rather avoid the term "advisors", because we're no lawyers and > therefore cannot give any legal advice.
Accepted. Licenses already uses the trustees when legal advice is required. > > It it clear that in some cases the licenses team will escalate issues > to the trustees and not to the council. Nevertheless, I see a project > (TLP or sub-project) as a good enough fit. So no need to invent new > structures for us. The main goal of having a project page is to > increase our visibility and to have a convenient starting point for > organising our information in the wiki. > > Ulrich > The Foundation bylaws already allow for committees, none have been created yet but it would not be inventing a new structure. None of this has anything to do with Licenses having a project page or not. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods trustees
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