On 2025-11-04 15:19, John David Anglin wrote:
On 2025-11-02 5:23 p.m., Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
Debian has no corperate entity -- it's only people, working together.
We have a few nonprofits that sponsor Debian resources in a few
countries,
but˙none˙are˙"Debian".˙OpenBSD˙is˙in˙similar˙shape.˙I˙respect˙that.
Debian is a project of SPI Inc. See copyright on Debian web pages.
Not really.
https://www.debian.org/license says the website's texts are copyrighted by SPI (which, tbh, was news to me - there's no copyright assignment) - it's specifically called "Debian WWW Pages License". The trademark is held by SPI. But what Paul said still applies: We have a
few non-profits around the world that hold some assets and have
operational control over them - but that is only where a legal entity
was needed.
Kind regards
Philipp Kern
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