Hey
On 5 January 2012 14:36, MJ Ray mjr@phonecoop.coop wrote:
Before I start: http://fsfe.org/source/index.en.xhtml looks broken and the contact page says to mention it here.
Elaborate. Seems fine to me. It is certainly proper XML.
Matthias Kirschner mk@fsfe.org
There are two topics:
- There is no European association. That is bad, because else FSFE would
have choosen that one. As this is not possible, we set up a German association.
To all intents and purposes, a German association is a European association because it is governed by EU law as well as German law and I think members could join it from anywhere in the EU (maybe even the world).
True, but if all Fellows were members, hosting GAs would got out of hand.
- Fellows not being members. It was a choice when we set up the
Fellowship to have Fellows as non-members. Like most of the people doing work for FSFE are non-members.
I feel that was a poor choice, as you can probably guess. I am a member of most of the things I work for at the moment.
It is possible to join FSFE as a member too.
Not trusting future leaders with all aspects of our work is one reason why people choose strong copyleft, GPL rather than BSD, so it seems a bit odd that FSFE (like FSF) basically demands BSD-style surrendering of control over the future uses of one's work.
How, where?
(Of course one of the most powerful ways to influence FSFE is still to just do the work as a volunteer and to contact us on matters, and discuss with us.)
That seems rather opaque and neither democratic nor do-ocratic. As you may remember, I stopped volunteering when that approach did not produce proper consideration of putting any FSFE web pages under a free software licence.
That seems rather honest. It works out to that one way or the other and acknowledging it is good. I agree with the licensing issue though. We are trying to handle it for software first. Take a look at trac. However, I am also of the opinion that our web pages should be CC-BY-SA. The logo should be an exception.
Best,