Thanks a lot, that's quite more explicit ! --yagraph <div class="gmail_quote">2010/6/3 Dave Crossland <<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com">dave@lab6.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On 3 June 2010 19:12, Camille Bissuel <<a href="mailto:cbissuel@yagraph.org">cbissuel@yagraph.org</a>> wrote: > > You seem to know the subject... Can you be a little more explicit, in which > organization is doing what ? > I don't really get the difference between SFLC, SFI, SFC... it's seems all > the same... Can you say us which one can we use for what ? </div><a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org" target="_blank">www.softwarefreedom.org</a> The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) is a non-profit lawyer shop in New York City. It was started 5 years ago by Eben Moglen, the FSF's longtime lawyer. They represent _big_ free software projects directly, like BusyBox and the GNU project, which have their own legal entities. This gives independence but costs time and money. SFLC isn't relevant to the LGA because LGA is too small. <a href="http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org" target="_blank">conservancy.softwarefreedom.org</a> SFLC set up another organisation, The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) in 2006. The SFLC and SFC are legally separate organisations, but the same people run them both. SFC is a non-profit "holdings group" for _small_ free software projects that are too small for setting up their own legal entities. Inkscape, for example. It means a group can take donations and spend them with no administrative overhead costs, and small projects don't need the independence possible with their own legal entity. Its based in the USA. <a href="http://www.spi-inc.org" target="_blank">www.spi-inc.org</a> Software in the Public Interest (SPI) was set up in 1997 to fund Debian and other free software projects. It works very similarly to the SFC. Its based in the USA but has partner organisations across the world, making donations from outside the USA possible without PayPal or Google CheckOut - <a href="http://www.spi-inc.org/donations#money" target="_blank">www.spi-inc.org/donations#money</a> HTH </blockquote></div>