Am Dienstag, 18. April 2006 09:09 schrieb Nils Larsch: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 01:43:28PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > >> now enter the software freedom law center and their latest > >> project: conservancy. they are setting up one legal entity > >> and doing all the paper work, and any number of projects can > >> get under their hood, thus get all the benefits, but with no > >> or little work and still keep full control of the actual software > >> project. > > > > I should note that similar things already exist; for example, SPI, which > > was founded by Debian, is open for other project as well. Go to > > <http://www.spi-inc.org/>, or to http://www.spi-inc.org/membership for > > details on how you can join SPI, should you want to. > > do you know if there is any difference betweem both projects ?
is it only me, or is the spi-inc website down for weeks? SPI is "Software in the public interest". Basicaly when debian decided that it would be a good idea to get an incorporation and all the paperwork done to accept donations, they decided to make it generic, so that other projects can use the same infrastructure. Which is a very good idea. the good part about conservancy is that its whole focus is helping open source projects, and that they have many lawyers on board and thus might help even more that only managing donations. I'm not sure how much spi is tied to debian, or how active spi is except for managing donations and funds for debian. I never heard much about them, except these things. Regards, Andreas _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
