Hello List! Last Sunday we talked also about "Legal background: form a limited-liability company to handle the stuff." Well, I vote for using a SCE [0] to fulfill this legal task instead of a company. A company is mostly owned be some individuals which rules the whole process in a "capitalistic" way. And I do not thinks this form will reflect our mission to bring the advantage of an open-and-free technology to the masses. In my opinion a cooperative fits better into our community-based environment. We need at least five entities (persons or institutions) from two different European Countries - a goal I guess we can reach while our active members are all located in Europe. So, the SCE can attract many members and give us a legal home for that. Okay, on backside of the SCE, a higher effort is driving/leading this cooperative because the SCE lives with the engagement of all of its members. I understand this as an enrichment. :-) Regarding the naming rules I propose "SCE LibreSilicon Alliance" as a suitable name for our cooperative enterprise. Some arguments for cooperatives also Wikipedia has [1]. Please feel free - even if your not from Europe - to give any feedback which Advantages and Disadvantages do you see in setting up and driving a SCE. Let's argue and find the best legal form to build a great LibreSilicon community. Live long and prosper, Hagen. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societas_cooperativa_Europaea [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative