Seems to me that it's less 'who' that matters and more 'what terms'. Most significantly the objectives of the project should not be under influence, and contributed IP should be assigned. I don't really know: how often does a funder give money and just step back?
On February 20, 2014 3:50:23 AM PST, Arne Babenhauserheide <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi, > >After CTS4 I started thinking about getting funding. When now Steve >had to start looking for a job, I asked Sandy for help on getting >funding, and she connected me to some people who know their stuff and >are willing to help. > >For this I asked on FMS last week if people would want to set specific >limits on funding. Things like “no governmet” and such. I did not have >time to forward this here, which is a shortcoming I now want to >correct. > >One of the funding advisers, with whom Sandy from OpenITP got me in >contact, asked me the following question: > > For grants one important consideration, particularly when moving > from a user-funded project, is: do you have particular guidelines > that you would like to follow for funding? Are you OK if a company > funded you, or perhaps only certain companies? Would any > government funding be OK or would you like to avoid government > funding, or specific governments such as the US? > >On this it’s not just my opinion which matters here, but the opinion >of all freenet users. So I would like to have *your* opinion on >that. In case you ask yourself whether you’re entitled to answer: If >you read this, then you are. > >The discussion on FMS is at > >freenet → Funding for freenet - limiting funders? We need your opinion > >Best wishes, >Arne >_______________________________________________ >Devl mailing list >[email protected] >https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
