On Wed, 2024-03-27 at 23:05 +0100, René de Hesselle wrote:
I vote c.
I propose to strike paragraph 6.e. from the policy.
Reasoning: if the project decides to give hardware way, it happens solely at our discretion and after careful consideration. I’d like for us to reserve any and all rights so that we can do as we see fit on individual case-by-case basis. Creating some guidelines or precedent in the policy will restrict our freedom to do so and I’m not comfortable with that.
For clarification: *I am not* saying that we shouldn’t give hardware away when the time or opportunity arises, *I am* saying that I don’t want to make any decisions or written concessions at this point.
Example: imagine a scenario where the hardware is no longer being used but we’d like to donate it to someone else instead of the contributor who has been using it up to this point. There shouldn't be any grounds to claim „but your policy said I could keep it“.
I'm not sure it says that. Or I mean it's not intended to say that.
"Kept" in this instance is supposed to mean "kept safe", and is not supposed to mean "owned". But you are right this is ambiguous. It's supposed to allow people who have the hardware the option of helping the project by keeping the hardware safe until it's needed. So we don't need to pay for a warehouse to store it all when it's not strictly being used.
I'll add a note and wait for the others.
Martin,