En r�ponse � "Aaron J. Seigo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

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> 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.  ;-)

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