Hey On 5 January 2012 14:36, MJ Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > Before I start: http://fsfe.org/source/index.en.xhtml looks broken and > the contact page says to mention it here. Elaborate. Seems fine to me. It is certainly proper XML.
> Matthias Kirschner <[email protected]> >> There are two topics: >> - There is no European association. That is bad, because else FSFE would >> have choosen that one. As this is not possible, we set up a German >> association. > > To all intents and purposes, a German association is a European > association because it is governed by EU law as well as German law and > I think members could join it from anywhere in the EU (maybe even the > world). True, but if all Fellows were members, hosting GAs would got out of hand. >> - Fellows not being members. It was a choice when we set up the >> Fellowship to have Fellows as non-members. Like most of the people >> doing work for FSFE are non-members. > > I feel that was a poor choice, as you can probably guess. I am a > member of most of the things I work for at the moment. It is possible to join FSFE as a member too. > Not trusting future leaders with all aspects of our work is one reason > why people choose strong copyleft, GPL rather than BSD, so it seems a > bit odd that FSFE (like FSF) basically demands BSD-style surrendering > of control over the future uses of one's work. How, where? >> (Of course one of >> the most powerful ways to influence FSFE is still to just do the work >> as a volunteer and to contact us on matters, and discuss with us.) > > That seems rather opaque and neither democratic nor do-ocratic. As > you may remember, I stopped volunteering when that approach did not > produce proper consideration of putting any FSFE web pages under a > free software licence. That seems rather honest. It works out to that one way or the other and acknowledging it is good. I agree with the licensing issue though. We are trying to handle it for software first. Take a look at trac. However, I am also of the opinion that our web pages should be CC-BY-SA. The logo should be an exception. Best, -- Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild <[email protected]> <https://wiki.fsfe.org/Fellows/repentinus> <http://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/> _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
