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[Camille Bissuel]

Thanks a lot, that's quite more explicit !

--yagraph

2010/6/3 Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com>

> On 3 June 2010 19:12, Camille Bissuel <cbissuel at yagraph.org> 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 ?
>
> www.softwarefreedom.org
>
> 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.
>
> conservancy.softwarefreedom.org
>
> 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.
>
> www.spi-inc.org
>
> 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 - www.spi-inc.org/donations#money
>
> HTH
>
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