On Wed, 10 Sept 2025, 17:49 Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel, < ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote:
> Hi remi > > On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 07:29:02PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont via > ffmpeg-devel wrote: > > Le tiistaina 9. syyskuuta 2025, 15.10.37 Itä-Euroopan kesäaika Michael > > Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel a écrit : > > > > 2) A legal entity with clear oversight rules that sponsors can trust > and > > > > influence collects funding from sponsors and decides whom to pay for > > > > what. > > > We have that: > > > "Software in the Public Interest (SPI) is a non-profit corporation > > > registered in the state of New York founded to act as a fiscal sponsor > for > > > organizations that develop open source software and hardware. Our > mission > > > is to help substantial and significant open source projects by > handling > > > their non-technical administrative tasks so that they aren't required > to > > > operate their own legal entity." > > > > How does that enable large sponsors to influence what gets done with the > money? > > How does that take care of drafting and reviewing contracts? That just > takes > > care of fiscal and admin problems. It's great that they do it at all, > but it's > > not remotely sufficient in this context. > > With souvereign tech fund we had contracts between people, STF and SPI. > > SPI did provide for the legal, accounting and paperwork services here. > We should in fact donate to them for doing that for us. (if we did not yet) > SPI is not accountable to the GA. It's (conveniently) accountable to you and Stefano. Kieran > _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list -- ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org To unsubscribe send an email to ffmpeg-devel-le...@ffmpeg.org
