William brings up a good point. I was thinking the same thing, but I
assumed there was a good reason things were leaning toward the SFC. I
agree that SPI seems to have the experience with larger projects, but
that's just my impression after 15 minutes of research. :)
For those that want to do some reading:
There was a short article on LWN a while ago about the SFC.
http://lwn.net/Articles/204870/
and here's a discussion thread about SPI/SFC differences.
http://lists.spi-inc.org/pipermail/spi-general/2007-September/002414.html
John Alberts
On Jan 18, 2008 4:25 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. <wltjr@g.o> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 14:15 -0600, Grant Goodyear wrote:
> >
> > What happened to the SFLC?
> > --------------------------
> >
> > Weren't we going to consider joinging the Software Freedom Law Center's
> > Software Freedom Conservancy (http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/)?
> > Yes, and the SFC was, and still is, interested (as of just a few days
> > ago, anyway), although they have some concerns about managing the legal
> > aspects of an entire distribution. (Gentoo would be larger, by far,
> > than any of their current member projects.) I still think that's the
> > right way to go
>
> snip...
>
> > I'd like to have all of this stuff sent to the SFC on Monday,
> > if at all possible.
>
> Does the SFC have adequate funding? Seemed like they were very tight on
> funds, and even if we had a our ducks in a row. All things per their
> list and likings. They have no $ for us.
>
> Much less if they have never managed an entity like that. Why are you so
> confident they can handle us and our problems? Not meant to be
> confrontational, just curious your thoughts there.
>
> Seems like them being new, lack of adequate funding, and lack of
> experience managing an entity like ours, much less our size. Seems like
> a very risky proposition.
>
> IMHO the SPI is WAY better. More established, been around longer.
> Manages Debian, used to do Gnome, etc. Likely has enough funding, surely
> enough experience, etc.
>
> Not to start a debate or etc. But minor discussion is cool. It's all
> meaningless short of informing all involved. I am sure the SFC or SPI is
> something that would be taken to a trustee vote or etc. So surely not
> decided upon here or now.
>
> Just wanted to weight out the pros and cons of the two.
>
> --
> William L. Thomson Jr.
> Gentoo/amd64/Java
>
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