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Fix Sponsorship Policy #140

Closed piegamesde closed 1 month ago

piegamesde commented 2 months ago

Let's be honest and explicitly write down what has always been implied from the beginning.

I once was one of the proponents of keeping things implicit and open, but I've recognized that it was a mistake –and frankly dishonest–, and would like to apologize for that.

This topic has been thoroughly and exhaustively discussed already. Therefore, please refrain from commenting on this pull request. This is up to the Board to decide.

drupol commented 2 months ago

Finally, the elephant in the room showed up. Couldn't agree more with these changes.

nixos-discourse commented 2 months ago

This pull request has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-board-giving-power-to-the-community/44552/75

AshleyYakeley commented 2 months ago

[to repeat what I posted elsewhere]

Bear in mind that Microsoft is heavily, but not primarily, involved in military, defence, intelligence or weapons manufacturing.

"Empowering militaries. Improving operations. Protecting national security."

Amazon and Google are also involved, and both companies also provide to the Israeli military as part of its "Project Nimbus". Project Nimbus for example has been heavily criticised by those concerned with Palestinian human rights including employees, particularly since recent events in the region.

piegamesde commented 1 month ago

The established policy already defines a team who will make these kind of judgement calls. They will discuss these companies as necessary.

However, note that the policy was specifically scoped down to explicit sponsorships, therefore I don't think it would apply w.r.t. things like GSoC or getting our storage sponsored by AWS. Expanding this again is a discussion for the future and out of scope for this PR.