Charters, manifestos, and SPI's purpose, and forum-widening
Josh Berkus
josh at postgresql.org
Mon May 14 16:36:10 UTC 2007
Bruce,
> The founders are myself and Tim Sailer. Our specific goal at the time
> was to protect Debian developers from personal liability by giving them
> a corporate shield. This purpose was not achieved, but IMO is more
> important today than it was in 1998.
Well, Debian certainly has the funds to insure the developers, provided that
they could find an insurance provider. Just a suggestion.
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Josh Berkus
Treasurer
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