Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Of MagnaTune and Money

[Matt <fisxoj gmail com>]

I'm all for the gnome or FS foundations.  I think doing anything other
than donating it would be unduly complicated.

-Matt

William Jon McCann wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On 12/19/06, *James Doc Livingston* <doclivingston gmail com
> <mailto:doclivingston gmail com>> wrote:
>
>     G'day everyone,
>
>     A little while ago John Buckman (founder of MangnaTune) contacted me,
>     checking up on how the MagnaTune-Rhythmbox integration was going
>     and the
>     like.
>
>
>     One of the things he mentioned was that they we setting they'd set
>     things up so that a small amount (10%) of the purchase price of tracks
>     bought with Amarok was being set aside to go back into funding the
>     development Amarok.
>
>     He made that same offer to us, namely that is we wanted they would
>     give
>     back some of the proceeds from Rhythmbox-related sales to fund
>     development. I thanked him for the offer, and said we'd need to
>     discuss
>     what we would do with any money.
>
>     So now we need to discuss what we could possibly do with any money
>     they
>     gave us.
>
>
>     I don't have any particular ideas about what we could do with it -
>     if we
>     can't think of anything, we could donate it to the GNOME foundation or
>     something.
>
>
> I'm not sure that we want to repeat the experience we had with
> bounties.  I'm sure the core developers know what I mean.
>
> So, it might be a nice gesture to donate the money to a non-profit
> that explicitly supports the development or promotion of audio/video
> freedoms.
>
> So maybe (in order of relevance):
>
> 1. Xiph.org <http://Xiph.org>
>       - http://xiph.org/about/
>       - http://xiph.org/donate/
>
> 2. FSF
>       - https://www.fsf.org/donate/
>
> 3. CC
>       - http://creativecommons.org/support/
>
> 4. EFF
>       - http://www.eff.org/about/
>       - https://secure.eff.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=DON_splash
>
> 5. GNOME Foundation
>       - http://www.gnome.org/friends/
>
> If we choose one of 1-4 perhaps we can see if Amarok would be
> interested in doing the same.
>
> Jon
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