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Re: Donations



On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 11:54:08PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> 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 I think this is rather outdated; when it was written, the only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.

Wouldn't the proper recourse then be to propose a GR to have the 
statement ammended and in the mean time continue directing donations to 
the SPI?



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