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Re: Sources of Donation

On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a simple question about donations. Is it going to be policy that
> > donations from Group A are to go to Group B specificaly because
> > they came from Group A?
> 
> Only if group B is producing Free Software, while group A is not. The
> criterion isn't who we got the money from. We support Free Software, plain
> and simple. This is our choice to make, not the one who donates the money.
> 
> > 
> > It would be nice to have a statement to the effect that we will/will not
> > discriminate by our sponsors.
> > 
> > [This KDE thing makes it soud like we will discriminate]
> > 
> KDE didn't donate the money, the product retailer did/will/might.

Well, what I was thinking is that we are saying that because KDE donated
the money it is somehow 'dirty' and must be 'cleaned' by giving it
immediately to some other group.

My thought would be to simply thank KDE for the donation, and then as a
-SEPARATE- act use some of our stored funds to promote free software in
some way. If that is toward gnome, gtk, gimp, freeqt, whatever then so be
it. This is at least a fair way to treat the KDE people and doesn't
violate our principles (?).

I'm not sure there is any need to associate the donation to gnome/whatever
with the donation from kde/bookstore (?).

Jason



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