En r�ponse � "Aaron J. Seigo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 15 July 2002 10:47, you wrote: > > Focus (cut & pasted): "A charity group, designed to fund Free > Software / > > OSS development and documentation in Canada which provides benefit to > > Canadian businesses and individuals using Linux." > > ignoring the need to work out the legalities and detail items, this > sounds > like a terrific idea ...
In a good or bad mean ? > > > it is to make sure that canadians' donations are well used > > (promoting canadian projects first!) > > what makes a project "canadian"? Free software tends to ignore > international > boundaries making such categorizations difficult. by "canadian project" > do > you mean simply "a canadian working on a Free software project"? yep. > > > - products are not own by the corporation; > > i'd go one step further and ask for a mandate that the source must be > released > under an OSI or DFSG approved license. I agree. > > > For non-projec-oriented money, the board decide how to distribute it. > Or > > it could be a web site where to can give money and choose to which > > project(s) you want to contribute. > > > > > promises", we start the project giving it to a small team (one guy?). > On > > delivery, the small team can be paid and donation "invoiced". > > by "on delivery" i suppose you mean "upon completing predetermined > milestones, > the source is uploaded to a publicly accessable repository (ftp, cvs, > web, > whatever)"? that's what I meant. Delivery of a deliverable. A milestone. Documents, sources, whatever... in the public domain for sure. > > in your 20k example, for instance, it would be much more realisticand > nice to > split that into 3 or more milestones and upon completion of each > milestone > disburse a corelative % of the funds ... > I totally agree. I took a very simple example to not have to go that far but you got it. ;-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
