Rogol,
What content protected by safe harbor provisions would the Foundation be exerting editorial control over by requiring governance standards of a Chapter?
Is there some French law that requires charities to be more independent of their international affiliates than would be under such a requirement?
The chapter agreements already contemplate this sort of control, because they state, "The Chapter agrees ... to refrain from ... engaging in any activity that might negatively impact the work or image of the Wikimedia Foundation," and are revocable upon three months notice.
On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Rogol Domedonfors domedonfors@gmail.com wrote:
If the Foundation is seen to be directing the activities of a chapter at the proposed level of micro-management then it would jeopardise the legal status both of the Foundation (in terms of their safe harbour status) and of the chapter (as an independent and charitable body). The Foundation is free to fund or not fund, to recognise or derecognise. But not to control. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe