[dpl-helpers] Relationship with SFLC / SPI (Was: Trademark work status update)

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 03:28:30PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 25/05/13 at 15:04 -0400, Brian Gupta wrote:
> > - Talk to Lucas about coordination with SPI: This is largely regarding
> > the fact that we are working directly with the SFLC, which is
> > technically SPI's attorney, but not necessarily looping SPI into the
> > comms. I think there might be a bug here.
> 
> I'm not sure if SFLC is providing legal advice to Debian because SFLC is
> SPI's legal advisor, or if it is unrelated. Zack, do you know?

Yeah, it's kinda blurry. Formally, SFLC is SPI's legal advisor and we
benefit from their services as a SPI-affiliated project. But it's pretty
clear to all involved parties that SFLC would be happy to advise Debian
(and Debian would be happy to be advised) even if Debian weren't an
SPI-affiliated project, or if SFLC weren't SPI legal advisor.

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