Debian or Arch or Ubuntu never ask for my confirmation ?
Example :
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Because their lawyers said so. Canonical is based in England so their lawyers didn’t say so. I don’t know where the Debian project is based. OpenSUSE is based in Germany so I’m not sure why they feel the need, but I assume that’s what the lawyers said they need to do.
Debian doesn’t have a legal entity, it’s based out of nowhere. Always has been.
Debian is legally part of Software in the Public Interest, Inc., which it also founded.
No it isn’t. The foundation only holds on to the trademarks and logos. It also allows the group to hold funds.
The project itself isn’t held, led, or otherwise directed by the foundation.
Eh, you’re right.
Not at all hard to do. The foundation receives funds and gives them out to whomever. That’s it.
Trademark and at least some copyright for the project is owned by an entity in the New York and Ian Murdoch who started the project was US citizen. But calling the whole project as USA based is wrong, it is based ‘on the internet’ as even the core team is spread across the globe.
Maybe because Suse company wants to make business in USA.