[Board] Statement of OSGeo Legal Support

[Frank Warmerdam]

Markus Neteler wrote:
> Frank,
> 
> thanks for drafting the statement.
> 
> I wonder if we could negotiate beforehand some collaboration with other
> like-minded organizations/foundations to have them in the background
> for worst case scenarios. In case that we can achieve an agreement with them,
> we could then also state so in our policy (to make it more credible).
> I am thinking
> of the organizations already mentioned in this discussion.

Markus,

I'm not adverse to such arrangements, but I'm not going to be the one to
pursue them.  I have no contacts, nor expertise in such activities and I'm
frankly not so excited about all this legal stuff.  I'm just attempting to
be diligent in facilitating discussion and consensus as chair of the board.

Several folks have already discussed talking to such organizations but we
haven't had any concrete proposals for a relationship or commitments of
support back (as far as I know).  I have gotten the impression that some of
these pro-bono open source legal resources are stretched very thin already.

Best regards,
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