Free software and money relashionship

Under Revision

We might be extremely careful about UPBGE relationship with commercial/advertising practices, and donations too.

I) Why?

1. Juridic reasons:

• We work on a software that doesn't totally belongs to us as we use BF Blender's code as base.
• UPBGE has no juridic status to define rules about the team organization.
• UPBGE has no juridic policy to define any kind of rules about all what concerns "money" management.

2. Potential problems:

• Promotional practices:
  a. Advertising for a commercial thing (game...) without having any benefit:
  We should avoid because UPBGE can be suspected to make money even if it doesn't. This can generate criticism against us.
  b. Advertising for a commercial thing (game...) with money benefit:
  We can't as UPBGE have no "money management policy". If a member does advertising using UPBGE as support for a commercial thing, this can lead to internal tensions/criticism against us.

• Donations:
  UPBGE can't accept donations until we have a money management policy because this can lead to internal tensions/problems (what can we do with money? the money is for who?).

3. The situations where the risk is elevated.

• The UPBGE team explodes/internal conflicts.
• Conflicts with some users.
• Conflicts with Blender Foundation or BF devs.

II) Rules/Guideline proposals:

1. GPL.

2. When there is a question of money, ask all the members opinion.

3. Unanimity for all decisions where money is involved. (But who are the team members :P).

4. I'd (youle) personaly recommend that we avoid any kind of relationship with all forms of commercial/advertising practices because money almost always generates problems (suspicion, jealousy, tensions...), and in any case this generates "potential" future conflicts.