[Cryptech Core] linux foundation proposal

[Pavel Shatov]

17.05.2018 23:50, Phil Roberts пишет:
> Hi folks,
> 
> at the recent face-to-face in Stockholm we discussed the need to move 
> the administrative ownership of the CrypTech project from Nordunet to a 
> new home.  That discussion is documented in the meeting notes here: 
> https://tid.isoc.org/pad/p/cryptech-2018-feb-stockholmagenda.
> 
> I volunteered to raise this possibility with the Linux Foundation at 
> their Global Leadership Summit which I was planning to attend.  I met 
> Mike Dolan there and started discussions about the possibility of doing 
> this.  Mike, Leif, and I had a phone call following up that meeting and 
> Mike presented the high-level requirements from the Linux Foundation for 
> them to become a home to a project. They are interested and willing to 
> become the home of the CrypTech project going forward.
> 
> The CrypTech business team has reviewed the requirements and recommends 
> that we seek to become a supported project under the Linux Foundation.
> 
> The benefits of us to having them as the long term home are:
> - the Linux Foundation does this kind of thing.  It hosts a large number 
> of open source projects as part of its portfolio.
> - they provide IPR and liability protection
> - they will be able to accommodate our existing development team
> - they will handle all accounting
> - they have some brand recognition which may help with visibility of 
> CrypTech
> - their requirements are not overly complicated
> 
> They do have some requirements that will cause us to add some formality 
> to our existing processes.  We believe these are acceptable.
> - the project needs a charter (there is a draft template of one attached 
> here, which has the following bits included)
> - a formal technical steering committee (I think this would be the 
> CrypTech core team)
> - identified group of “committers” (these are folks who can make commits 
> to the code base - I believe this is the group of existing developers 
> [Rob, Paul, Pavel, Fredrik, Joachim]
> - hold everything under an OSI-approved license (our existing license is 
> fine for this)
> - when code is contributed it must be accompanied by a developer 
> certificate of origin where the contributor signs off that they intend 
> to abide by the license (I don’t think we have anything like this? but I 
> think it sounds ok.)
> 
> 
> Please note that there is cost associated with becoming a supported 
> project under the Linux Foundation.  Their administration fees are 9% of 
> the first $1million USD contributed to a project and 6% of every dollar 
> after that.
> 
> I believe the next steps for this are:
> - circulate this email with the core team
> - gather any outstanding questions people have and get them answered by 
> the Linux Foundation
> - decide whether this is the way we want to proceed with the project
> 
> What do you think?
> 

Due to the ongoing series of perplexing decisions made by some of the 
world political leaders, I would prefer EU-based administrative 
ownership over US-based one.

> Regards,
> Phil
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With best regards,
Pavel Shatov