Re: Planned obsolescence ? (OpenBSD)

Philipp Kern <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc
Organization Debian
Message-ID <4403d6834cd64ff586c02d303500d260__16077.7191443898$1762336330$gmane$org@debian.org>
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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