[fsfc-discuss] FSFE and FSF (was 'Fwd: Re: "FSF Canada"')

[Denver Gingerich]

Hi Russell,

Thanks very much for asking those questions and forwarding them here.
Did you ask him about how FSF's relationship with FSFE works?  It
seems like we may want a similar sort of relationship between FSF and
FSFC.

Denver
http://ossguy.com/


On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Russell McOrmond <address@hidden> wrote:
> Forwarding with permission
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: "FSF Canada"
> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:13:47 -0500
> From: Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org>
> To: Russell McOrmond <russell at flora.ca>
> CC: rms at gnu.org, johns at gnu.org
>
>       Don't worry -- this isn't a group trying to start an FSF that isn't a
>    branch of the US FSF, but a group discussing what we need to do to help
>    grow the FSF into Canada.
>
> The thing is, both of those paths have problems.  The FSF does not
> have any branches, and we would not know how to have one.  "Growing
> into Canada" is difficult if that involves an organization which is
> legally separate.
>
> On the other hand, you could easily do things for the FSF in Canada,
> working for the FSF's staff.  We could set up a separate fund for
> donations to be used in Canada, with the proviso that if it doesn't
> get enough money to do something special in Canada, we would want to
> be able to use the funds some other way.
>
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