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boundary="pirEwTeAQVLjjwBb" Content-Disposition: inline --pirEwTeAQVLjjwBb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi remi On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 07:29:02PM +0300, R=E9mi Denis-Courmont via ffmpeg-= devel wrote: > Le tiistaina 9. syyskuuta 2025, 15.10.37 It=E4-Euroopan kes=E4aika Michae= l=20 > Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel a =E9crit : > > > 2) A legal entity with clear oversight rules that sponsors can trust = and > > > influence collects funding from sponsors and decides whom to pay for > > > what. > > We have that: > > "Software in the Public Interest (SPI) is a non-profit corporation > > registered in the state of New York founded to act as a fiscal sponsor = for > > organizations that develop open source software and hardware. Our missi= on > > is to help substantial and significant open source projects by handling > > their non-technical administrative tasks so that they aren't required to > > operate their own legal entity." >=20 > How does that enable large sponsors to influence what gets done with the = money?=20 > How does that take care of drafting and reviewing contracts? That just ta= kes=20 > care of fiscal and admin problems. It's great that they do it at all, but= it's=20 > not remotely sufficient in this context. With souvereign tech fund we had contracts between people, STF and SPI. SPI did provide for the legal, accounting and paperwork services here. We should in fact donate to them for doing that for us. (if we did not yet) >=20 > There is an argument that sponsors should not be allowed that influence. = But=20 > the flip side is that they won't make big donations without it. It's not = a=20 > sufficient condition, but it's essentially necessary. Some sponsors will have specific wishes that we work on "for them". And some will just want to donate to have their company be a sponsor and to ensure FFmpeg has the resources to be well maintained. I see no problem here. We can do the whole spectrum of options here. =46rom * "just take my money" * informal agreements where everyone knows what the sponsor cares about and people respect that and look after it * formal contracts. Like we had with STF for example, with clear deliverables needed for paym= ent to happen >=20 > AFAICT, you would need an actual FFmpeg legal entity with proper legal=20 > statutes and formal governance, and as part of that governance, a signifi= cant=20 > place for big sponsors. No offense, but you don't strike me as the type o= f=20 > person with the expertise and skillset to do set up and run such an=20 > organisation (me neither). SPI is a legal entity. And nothing stops us from creating a new legal entit= y. I just think using SPI is much simpler, they have experience, they have acc= ountants they have contacts to the right lawyers. My plan here really is to use the ideas from this thread to build a proposal and bring this to a vote. I have no intend to convince anyone of anything. Just to try to write down what seems the consensus of the people who support this. And then count if we have a majority in favor or not. thx [...] --=20 Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB If one takes all money from those who grow wealth and gives it to those who do not grow wealth, 10 years later, almost the same people who where wealthy will be wealthy again, the same people who where poor will be poor again. --pirEwTeAQVLjjwBb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EABEKAB0WIQSf8hKLFH72cwut8TNhHseHBAsPqwUCaMGd2gAKCRBhHseHBAsP q36jAKCMoaIrdkhorqDRXOV3QRXB+s9EngCgkcu06CLCoCGClyLlOJNi4Ndu4u0= =g21f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pirEwTeAQVLjjwBb-- --===============4150346837770992567== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list -- ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org To unsubscribe send an email to ffmpeg-devel-leave@ffmpeg.org --===============4150346837770992567==--