On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 11:54:31PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > pe, 2006-06-09 kello 22:43 +0200, Florian Weimer kirjoitti: > > * MJ Ray: > > > any donations to debian must be given to SPI; or > > > > Why do you think this is so? > > Our Constitution, section 9.2: > > Since Debian has no authority to hold money or property, any > donations for the Debian Project must be made to SPI, which > manages such affairs. > > I think this is rather outdated; when it was written, the only > organization that held money and property for Debian was the SPI. These > days there's more. There is no point in forcing people to transfer money > from, say, Finland to the US, just because of this clause in the > Constitution. I agree, so perhaps we should change the Constitution to match. However, since SPI does more than just holding our money (it also is the owner of the copyrights on our website and of (at least some of) our servers), I don't think removing SPI from the constitution entirely is a good idea. Perhaps a formulation like Since Debian has no authority to hold money or property, any monetary donations for the Debian Project must be made to an organization that has been vetted by the DPL to be allowed to handle such things in name of the Debian project, where no more than one such organization shall be vetted per country. Any property in hardware, trademarks, or in copyright will be handled by SPI, which is our legal umbrella organization in the U.S. might work. This would avoid having to update the constitution every time someone wants to create a new organization. Cc sent to -vote, because if we're going to update the constitution, this might be a good idea. -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4
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