Who pays for all this?

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

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On 06/10/14 09:12, Edwin van Leeuwen via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> An alternative is to join an umbrella organisation that has
> experience setting up foundations for open source projects. To name
> a couple: Software Freedom Conservancy (Boost), Software in the
> Public Interest, and the Outercurve Foundation. As far as I
> understand it these organisations will help you with the paperwork,
> but you have full autonomy outside of that.
> 
> See http://lwn.net/Articles/561336/ for some more
> suggestions/ideas.

SCons used to have a USA-based foundation, but it lapsed. The various
opinions sought indicate that reapplying would be too costly and too
much of a burden. The current plan is to follow Buildbot and be a
foundation under the umbrella of Software Freedom Conservancy. Thus
this might be the best route for a D Foundation.

I am writing this from memory rather than consulting the various email
threads, so details lacking: there are some significant downsides to
the Software Freedom Conservancy route, but the Buildbot folk decided
it was worth it and this is a significant factor for SCons. I suspect
SCons will be a member as soon as a couple of legal issues are
resolved wrt cash and copyrights.

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