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Steering Committee: FSF and Replicant agreement

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and developers representing the Replicant project (Denis Carikli and Paul Kocialkowski), made an agreement on the 5th of June 2013 that enables the FSF to conduct fundraising in the name of Replicant and governs the fund usage.

In a nutshell:
  • The FSF holds Replicant funds and acts like an umbrella organization.
  • The person that is designed to be in contact with the FSF is Denis Carikli.
  • The people responsible for fund usage decisions are Paul Kocialkowski and Denis Carikli.
Since then the agreement has been amended to:

Amendments

date Amendments Signatures
? (Before FOSDEM 2018) Removal of the
Unless authorized by a written amendment to this Agreement, signed 
by both parties, the Initiative Fund shall not be used to pay for 
software or software development services.
limitation
20 April 2019 * Paul Kocialkowski was removed from the agreement.
* Filippo Bergamo was added to the agreement.
* Joonas Kylmälä was added to the agreement.
The signatures were done through mail with GPG:
From: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
To: John Sullivan
Cc: Joonas Kylmälä, Fil Bergamo, Paul Kocialkowski
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 17:30:58 +0100

[...]

I, Denis Carikli, agree to add the following people to the
"Fundraising and Development Agreement" that exists between the FSF and the
Replicant project: 
- Filippo Bergamo
- Joonas Kylmälä
and I also agree to remove Paul Kocialkowski from this agreement.

Denis Carikli. 

From: Paul Kocialkowski
To: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli, John Sullivan
Cc: Joonas Kylmälä , Fil Bergamo
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 01:07:57 +0200

[...]

I, Paul Kocialkowski, agree to add the following people to the
"Fundraising and Development Agreement" that exists between the FSF and
the Replicant project:
- Filippo Bergamo
- Joonas Kylmälä
and also agree to remove myself from this agreement.

[...]

Paul
12 September 2024 * Filippo Bergamo was removed from the agreement.
* David Ludovino was added to the agreement.
addendum-A-update-signers.pdf was wet (handwritten) signed by the current Steering Community members (Denis, Joonas and Filippo) and Zoë Kooyman representing the FSF. Scanned copies were passed by email.

Updated by dl lud about 1 month ago · 50 revisions

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