Free Project Hosting Sourceware has joined the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), which provides legal protection for free projects, enforces the GPL license, and raises sponsorship funds.
The SFC allows members to focus on the development process by taking on the role of fundraising. The SFC also becomes the owner of the project's assets and relieves developers of personal liability in the event of litigation. For donators, the SFC organization allows you to receive a tax deduction, since it falls into the preferential category of taxation. SFC supported projects include Git, Wine, Samba, QEMU, OpenWrt, CoreBoot, Mercurial, Boost, OpenChange, BusyBox, Godot, Inkscape, uCLibc, Homebrew, and about a dozen other free projects.
Since 1998, the Sourceware project has been providing open source projects with a hosting platform and related services related to maintaining mailing lists, hosting git repositories, tracking bugs (bugzilla), reviewing patches (patchwork), testing builds (buildbot) and distributing releases. The Sourceware framework is used to distribute and develop projects such as GCC, Glibc, GDB, Binutils, Cygwin, LVM2, elfutils, bzip2, SystemTap, and Valgrind. It is expected that the accession of Sourceware to the SFC will attract new volunteers to work on hosting and raise funds for the modernization and development of the Sourceware infrastructure.
To interact with the SFC, Sourceware has formed a steering committee consisting of 7 representatives. In accordance with the agreement, in order to avoid conflicts of interest, the committee cannot have more than two members associated with one company or organization (previously, the main contribution to Sourceware support was provided by employees of Red Hat, which also provided equipment to the project, which prevented the attraction of other sponsors and caused disputes about the excessive dependence of the service on one company).
Source: opennet.ru