1) The SFC website says that "Member projects can take directed donations, which allows donors to earmark their donations for the benefit of a specific" project.
Yet the FSA plainly contradicts this, saying that the SFC will only "make a good faith effort to consider any expressed donor intent ... however, ... expressions of donor intent are not legally binding on" the SFC. [2] Does this mean that if Racket becomes an SFC member project, there will no longer be a way for a donor to ensure that a dollar intended to benefit Racket actually does? 2) Apparently, much of the SFC's advocacy and energy goes into GPL / copyleft issues. But last I checked, Racket is migrating away from GPL / copyleft. [3] What is the SFC's position on the MIT license? Do member projects that are not GPL / copyleft have the same standing within SFC? 3) Where is SFC publish a list of its corporate donors (with amounts)? 4) Where have the directors & officers of the SFC disclosed their conflicts of interest (specifically, financial relationships with donors and member projects)? [1] https://sfconservancy.org/about/ <https://sfconservancy.org/about/> [2] https://sfconservancy.org/projects/apply/ConservancyFSATemplate.pdf <https://sfconservancy.org/projects/apply/ConservancyFSATemplate.pdf> [3] https://github.com/racket/racket/issues/1570 <https://github.com/racket/racket/issues/1570> > On May 7, 2018, at 12:51 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi, > I’m the Director of Community Operations at the Software Freedom Conservancy. > > I am excited to write that Conservancy’s Project Evaluation Committee has > approved Racket for membership in Conservancy. The Racket Project Leadership > Committee has been working with Conservancy to put a document in place called > a “fiscal sponsorship agreement” (FSA). Matthew Flatt, Jay McCarthy, Robby > Findler, Matthias Felleisen and Sam Tobin-Hochstadt are signing this document > on behalf of the Racket community. > > You can find a template of the agreement available on Conservancy’s website > at: https://sfconservancy.org/members/apply/ConservancyFSATemplate.pdf > <https://sfconservancy.org/members/apply/ConservancyFSATemplate.pdf> 9 (there > are .odf and .tex files available too). > > If you have questions or concerns, we suggest you discuss them on this list > or with Conservancy privately if you prefer. > > Conservancy’s “Project Intake group” can be reached by the alias > [email protected] and is comprised of the following people: > Bradley M. Kuhn, Karen Sandler, Tony Sebro, Jeremy Allison, Tom Callaway, > Martin Michlmayr. All of whom are members of Conservancy’s Project Evaluation > Committee and will be happy to answer questions. > > Conservancy strongly suggests that a public discussion of the FSA occur on > the general discussion list for contributors of your project, which is why > I’ve posted this information here on the Racket Developers list. > > If we don’t receive any credible objections to Racket joining Conservancy by > Monday, May 14th 2018, we plan to execute the FSA on that date. > > We look forward to having Racket join Conservancy! > > Deb Nicholson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/32314B75-82CB-4694-B65F-CCC8EE7DE2D6%40mbtype.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
