On Monday 27. February 2017 14.40.50 Agner Fog wrote: > > The commercial users want an invoice and a piece of paper that says > "license". Some even require that I register into their database of > suppliers. Donation to charity doesn't fit into their administrative > routines, I guess. Or maybe they can put it on their PR budget or their > "Corporate Social Responsibility" budget?
What would be interesting to see is an organisation that can invoice people for spending money on Free Software which remains Free Software. I remember a case where a municipality that gave a donation to a project was criticised (presumably by proprietary software shills) for doing so, but if some kind of umbrella organisation could be a supplier, certain forms of organisational entity (companies, municipalities, public organisations) would find it easier to pay for Free Software. > Do you think the FSF will endorse such a scheme? (I can't get access to > their mailing list even though I am a member). If the software remains Free Software. If you're selling proprietary licences, I'm pretty sure you'll be told what has already been said in this thread. Paul _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
