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, IIRC), which corresponds to a forfait amount of lawyer hours that Conservancy give to Debian per year. If any enforcement (or other legal) action will require more than those hours, Conservancy will bill Debian for the extra time. If we want to donate to Conservancy, it should be on a different basis than paying for the services we get from them, because those are regulated on a contractual basis. FWIW, I'm a conservancy supporter and also a testimonial for their current fund raising campaign. But I'm against "transitive donations" of money that Debian received as donations to other charitable initiatives because, e.g., there is no reasonable guarantee that the goals of Conservancy align well with the reasons why the initial donor gave money to Debian. Also, in this specific case, I don't think that significant one-shot donations is what Conservancy needs the most in the current situation (even though of course I don't and can't speak for the organization). What they need is to build a significant basis of individual supporters that will, on average, remain supporters in the long term. So if Debian really wants to help Conservancy, promoting their current campaign for individual memberships would be a very useful thing to do. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . zack@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . . . . @zacchiro . . . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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