Transparency of non-profits

Transparency of non-profits

paulj wrote:

I just want to point out that the importance of transparency comes up regularly in a number of contexts, and bump its visibility. There are some non-profits in free software / open-source that do a great job on this. However, this is unfortunately not universally the case.

I hope you consider Conservancy to already be one of those doing a great job on this, as we publish a tremendous amount about any litigation we get involved with (see our materials about Hellwig's VMware case we're providing funding for) and we put almost-excessive efforts to make our public financial filings understandable. (Fontana's talk, BTW, failed to mention any of this detailed transparency available, and I continue to await his comments on what transparency is missing.)

Anyway, I hope any place where people think Conservancy's enforcement work is inadequately transparent, they'll raise the issue on the principles-discuss mailing list. I'm obviously following this particular comment thread, but I can't assure that I'll notice and be able to respond on every LWN thread about GPL enforcement.