On 2025-09-11 02:22 am, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
Hi Kieran
On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 06:21:56PM +0200, Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
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.
Lets go down that rabbit hole.
For this subject to make any sense, we need to have the entities
(GA, the community, myself, stefano) disagree.
I have to point out, that stefano and myself just pass the community
decissions to SPI, so we will not disagree with the community.
But let us for sake of this rabbit hole, assume, we all disagree.
I say: green
Stefano says: red
The community says: blue with 90% majority
The GA says: black with 90% majority
So what will SPI do ?
IMHO, SPI will see me and stefano disagree and consequently will check the
public communication channels and see that the community in public and
in a verifyable way has choosen: blue
What is the 'community' in this scenario? Who are the members (and who
decides), what is the voting mechanism, who is/are the adjudicators?
Regards,
Gyan
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