[oe] [oe-commits] Koen Kooi : Revert "ecore: catch up with the new SONAMEs; move to autosplitting"

[Phil Blundell]

On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 17:26 -0400, Philip Balister wrote:
> Phil Blundell wrote:
> > In particular, given that the eV is (obviously)
> > constituted in Germany and hence that the authoritative copies of all
> > the legal documents are presumably those drafted in German, I suspect
> > that it would probably be a dim idea for anybody with a less than fluent
> > grasp of that language to serve on the board.  
> 
> The kde ev documents are here: http://ev.kde.org/. I don't think there 
> is any issue having non-German's on the board. In fact I would be 
> unhappy if there was such a restriction in place.

Just to clarify what I wrote before, I certainly didn't mean that I
thought non-Germans were prohibited from serving on the board; indeed, I
would be very surprised if there was any specific restriction of that
kind.

However, personally, I would be very reluctant to serve as a board
member for any organisation whose official documentation was drafted in
a language of which I had a less than perfect command, and/or which was
operating in a jurisdiction whose laws I knew very little about.  The
risk of screwing something up through ignorance or misunderstanding
would just be too great.  And, for that matter, if I were casting a vote
for the board members of such an organisation, I'd want to be confident
that the people I was voting for had the knowledge and ability to
discharge their duties appropriately.

Since OE eV is a German organisation, the language of its official
documents and any related legal processes is almost inescapably going to
be German.  Indeed, for example, note that
http://ev.kde.org/corporate/statutes.php (the "Articles of association"
link from the page you mentioned above) says:

 The original and legally binding version is the German version, the
 "Satzung" (PDF). The following translation is for information only.

p.