I also donate as a supporter. Anyone that can, should! Paul On Dec 1, 2015 8:18 AM, "Ian Jackson" <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> As reported here: > https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/ > > Conservancy is an amazingly good thing. They are the only > organisation doing GPL enforcement for non-FSF projects. They are > facing financial problems because one of their major donors has > withdrawn. Conservancy's determination to make the GPL stick, by > lawsuit if necessary, is not popular amongst rich corporates. > > I have just signed up. I think any Debian contributor who believes in > copyleft, and can afford it, should probably sign up too. > > If, like me, you work on copylefted software in your day job, or you > hope to do so in the future, the GPL is for you not just an important > tool to help change the world, but also an assurance of your personal > autonomy. > > > Could Debian as a project sign up ? Conservancy is a 503(c), like > SPI, so perhaps we in Debian could commit a modest regular funding > stream to Conservancy. > > Debian depends heavily on GPL'd software and most of the > Debian-specific tools we have written over the years are copyleft. We > depend on our copyleft being enforced to ensure that all users of > Debian (including users of Debian derivatives) have the freedoms that > our community (and our Social Contract) promise. > > Debian's presence in the list of sponsors would be valuable as an > example, too. > > > Ian. > >
