[Foundation-l] Corporate Social Responsibility

[Milos Rancic]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 14:46, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19 November 2010 13:41, Abbas Mahmoud <abbasjnr at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Does Wikimedia Foundation engage in Corporate Social Responsibility?
>
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_social_responsibility
>
> It appears to be something for for-profit corporations to do to appear
> less rapacious.
>
> It's not clear what its applicability is to a 501(c)3 charity, given
> that you only get 501(c)3 by being of social benefit in the first
> place.

Yes, but it would be good if we would have "Social Contract", like
Debian has: http://www.debian.org/social_contract