Working together and gaining trust

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Jeff,

On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 09:27:56AM -0700, Jeffrey Law wrote:
> I think we're still missing a key point.  Namely that from a
> fundraising standpoint there are companies out there that are not
> willing to channel money to Red Hat to run sourceware, nor are they
> willing to fund via the FSF.

I am not sure if you were still at Red Hat, but we split out
Sourceware as a separate entity a couple of years ago. Like Frank said
that means that funding goes through Sourceware/SFC directly. And I
think we have been somewhat successful with that.

There is a Sourceware Leadership Committee who oversees this:
https://sourceware.org/mission.html#plc (Frank Ch. Eigler, Ian
Kelling, Ian Lance Taylor, Tom Tromey, Jon Turney, Mark J. Wielaard
and Elena Zannoni)

Alex points out that makes us a seperate organization from the hosted
projects. And with that there is a risk of one organization
controlling the computing done of another group. I do see how this
could result in SaaSS. But I am arguing that a) these people would
never allow that given they are themselves part of the hosted
projects, and b) our charter also doesn't allow it
https://sourceware.org/Conservancy-Sourceware-FSA.pdf

Cheers,

Mark