On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:32:54AM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > Am Dienstag, 18. April 2006 09:09 schrieb Nils Larsch: > > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 01:43:28PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > > >> now enter the software freedom law center and their latest > > >> project: conservancy. they are setting up one legal entity > > >> and doing all the paper work, and any number of projects can > > >> get under their hood, thus get all the benefits, but with no > > >> or little work and still keep full control of the actual software > > >> project. > > > > > > I should note that similar things already exist; for example, SPI, which > > > was founded by Debian, is open for other project as well. Go to > > > <http://www.spi-inc.org/>, or to http://www.spi-inc.org/membership for > > > details on how you can join SPI, should you want to. > > > > do you know if there is any difference betweem both projects ?
As I don't know much about conservancy, I can't really answer that. > is it only me, or is the spi-inc website down for weeks? It must be you, it works perfectly on my end; both right now, and right before I sent that previous mail. > SPI is "Software in the public interest". Basicaly when debian decided > that it would be a good idea to get an incorporation and all the > paperwork done to accept donations, they decided to make it generic, > so that other projects can use the same infrastructure. Correct. > Which is a very good idea. > > the good part about conservancy is that its whole focus is helping > open source projects, and that they have many lawyers on board and > thus might help even more that only managing donations. SPI indeed doesn't do that. > I'm not sure how much spi is tied to debian, or how active spi is > except for managing donations and funds for debian. I never heard much > about them, except these things. It's true that SPI has had (repeated) issues in the past, but those issues have been taken care of by now; they were all related to how the treasurer went inactive after finding out how much of a job being the treasurer of SPI really is, so in the end it was decided to get a professional accountant to do most of the work there. Right now, they're doing a fine job, AIUI. Although Debian is probably SPI's largest member project, it's certainly not the case that Debian is the only one; apart from Debian, the SPI website also lists Fresco, GNUstep, LSB, OFTC, the Open Source Initiative, GNU TeXmacs, and wxWidgets. I heard rumours that PostgreSQL would be a member project too (though I can't confirm that), and GNOME used to be a member project as well, before it launched the GNOME Foundation. -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4 _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
