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Re: On gifts, clean money and dirty money

>>>>> "IJ" == Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

    IJ: What we _say_ to people is one thing, but it would be bad to
    IJ: accept money and then worry about our obligations to the giver
    IJ: not to (for example) support their competitors.

It is really impossible for us to give general obligations for money,
probably everyone of us agrees with that.  But what about a money
donated for a given purpose?

Examples:
1. (positive donation): Someone produces big free software package XXX,
   he has foundation for it and XXX is not packaged for Debian.  He
   would want to forward us some donations for creating and maintaining
   XXX Debian packages.  We would be allowed to use *this* money only
   for this purpose.
2. (negative donation): A producer of ZZZ software says us: "We will
   donate you money, you can use *this* money for whatever you want
   except for supporting YYY, because we think YYY is evil.  We do not
   care if you support YYY from another money, but we do not allow you
   to use *our* money for this purpose."

Is there any problem with such donations?  (Except of technical issues
like that we have no capacity to package XXX, so we have to reject the
gift, etc.)  We can use this money for some our goals, though not for
anything.  We do not promise to the giver nothing more than what we will
do (or won't do) with *his* money.  Do you think it would warp our aims
or not?

Milan Zamazal


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