On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 11:44:34AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I thought we paid a retainer to the Software Freedom Law Center, not the
> Software Freedom Conservancy. Am I confused?
I'm not aware of any retainer paid to Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC)
directly by Debian. SFLC is Debian's
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On 01/12/2015 15:36, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> So if Debian really wants to help Conservancy, promoting their
> current campaign for individual memberships would be a very useful
> thing to do.
>
Indeed. And instead of simply adding blog
On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 09:04:28PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> I'm not aware of any retainer paid to Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC)
> directly by Debian. SFLC is Debian's lawyer "transitively", via the
> services that they offer to SPI's affiliated projects. It might be the
> case that
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 6:23 AM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
> Indeed. And instead of simply adding blog posts, the project may make
> an official public statement about it.
The publicity team and associated folks posted these when the campaign began.
https://identi.ca/debian/note/hPj5AtNkQxGfsgI9upgBWA
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:48 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> It might be a little more complicated than that given our own 501(c)
> status, I think (but I am no longer a lawyer end never was an American
> tax lawyer.
Debian has no legal status, perhaps you are thinking of SPI?
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Stefano Zacchiroli writes ("Re: Software Freedom Conservancy needs our cash"):
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 03:52:35PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> > What does "forfait" mean?
...
> It means we pay that sum per year, and we have pre-allocated to us a
> given amount of lawyer hours each year. If we use
On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 09:35:26AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 6:23 AM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
>
> > Indeed. And instead of simply adding blog posts, the project may make
> > an official public statement about it.
>
> [...]
>
> Were you thinking of something in a different
Stefano Zacchiroli writes:
> We already pay for those services. There is a forfait amount of money
> that Debian pays to Conservancy per year (1000 USD, IIRC), which
> corresponds to a forfait amount of lawyer hours that Conservancy give to
> Debian per year. If any enforcement
On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 01:17:53PM +, Ian Jackson 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
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 01:17:53PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
>> Conservancy is an amazingly good thing. They are the only
>> organisation doing GPL enforcement for non-FSF projects.
> Where can I read some examples about this?
Their
On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 03:17:33PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Let's give them a part of our money for the service they do us by
> enforcing the GPL for Debian developers.
We already pay for those services. There is a forfait amount of money
that Debian pays to Conservancy per year (1000 USD,
Andrey Rahmatullin writes ("Re: Software Freedom Conservancy needs our cash"):
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 01:17:53PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Conservancy is an amazingly good thing. They are the only
> > organisation doing GPL enforcement for non-FSF projects.
>
> Where can I read some
On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 01:17:53PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Conservancy is an amazingly good thing. They are the only
> organisation doing GPL enforcement for non-FSF projects.
Where can I read some examples about this?
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* Stefano Zacchiroli , 2015-12-01, 15:36:
Let's give them a part of our money for the service they do us by
enforcing the GPL for Debian developers.
We already pay for those services. There is a forfait amount of money
that Debian pays to Conservancy per year (1000 USD,
On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 03:52:35PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> >We already pay for those services. There is a forfait amount of money that
> >Debian pays to Conservancy per year (1000 USD, IIRC), which corresponds to
> >a forfait amount of lawyer hours that Conservancy give to Debian per year.
>
>
I also donate as a supporter. Anyone that can, should!
Paul
On Dec 1, 2015 8:18 AM, "Ian Jackson"
wrote:
> As reported here:
> https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/
>
> Conservancy is an amazingly good thing. They are the only
> organisation doing GPL
On Tue, 01 Dec 2015, Ian Jackson wrote:
> 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.
+1
We have troubles finding good use of our money. This one should not
cause any problem to
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
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