[FFmpeg-devel] Re: [RFC] Sponsors & Funding

[Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>]

On Wed, 10 Sept 2025, 17:49 Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel, <
ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote:

> Hi remi
>
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 07:29:02PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont via
> ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> > Le tiistaina 9. syyskuuta 2025, 15.10.37 Itä-Euroopan kesäaika Michael
> > Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel a écrit :
> > > > 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
> mission
> > > 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."
> >
> > How does that enable large sponsors to influence what gets done with the
> money?
> > How does that take care of drafting and reviewing contracts? That just
> takes
> > care of fiscal and admin problems. It's great that they do it at all,
> but it's
> > 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)
>

SPI is not accountable to the GA.

It's (conveniently) accountable to you and Stefano.

Kieran

>
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