The disagreement between the Free Software Law Center (SFLC) and the conservancy (SFC)
There is a mixture of tax law, trademark law, and political strategy behind the disagreement between the Free Software Law Center (SFLC) and the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). Understanding what is happening only requires connecting the dots between these. First, why did the SFLC create the SFC as a separate entity? Answer: US Tax law In A New Era for Free Software Non-Profits , Eben Moglen discusses the need for software projects to set up a 501(c)3 tax exempt non-profit organizations of their own. It also discusses how they created "several 501c3-determined 'condominium' or 'conservancy' arrangements, to allow multiple free software projects to share one tax-deductible legal identity". The SFC, as its name suggests, is one of those conservancy arrangements. It was created as a separate entity for what should be obvious reasons, which is that a law center intended to be used by any individual, company, or free software project shouldn't also be th