I've read through this document and I have some questions / points. Firstly, we should confirm *with* member projects that they *are* members. Currently I only have SFC's word that e.g. wine and samba are member projects; it would be good to find out if wine and samba say the same. (This guards against SFC being some kind of elaborate scam.)
Secondly, while (AIUI) the chief reason for doing this is to hand over the "caring about legal stuff" work to the SFC, the contract seems to imply that the Project could actually have some money. What could/would we spend this on? For example: paying for hosting (of darcs.net); paying for bus fares to and coffee/sandwiches at the next sprint; paying people like David or Eric to work on Darcs full time. The contract says it it interpreted according to US law (para. 9). What, if any, are the consequences of - One or more Developers being citizens and residents in other countries? - The Project's principal office being located outside the US? Karen writes of (2b): > Note that developers of darcs, in their capacity as individuals (when > not representing darcs), still may engage in for-profit service > businesses related to their Free Software work. The work of darcs > itself must fit the guidelines, but individuals are free to act in > their own capacity in other endeavors. Similarly, does this contract restrict Developers in their capacity *as individuals* from violating para. 5 in other ways? For example, is it a problem if I personally advocate violating the DMCA? Regarding (2b), the Developers are delegated artistic and technical control of the Project, while SFC retains all other control (including financial). Does this mean the SFC can/will *force* the Developers to e.g. add a "click here to donate via paypal" button to the Darcs website? Or would such a decision fall under "artistic/technical direction"? Regarding (6), as Karen points out, we need to work out - Who currently has decision-making responsibility for the project (e.g. Eric and David)? - What conditions must be met for a decision to pass (e.g. two-thirds majority)? See http://debian.org/vote/ for an example of this done by a (much larger) project. - What is the process for "graceful" handover to new representatives? Example: Eric loses interest in Darcs and doesn't want to work on it anymore. - What is the process for overthrowing representatives? Example: Eric goes insane and decides that Darcs should be rewritten in Emacs Lisp, but everybody else in the community disagrees. (This process might just be "well, fork it".) _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
