On 2022-06-19 03 h 18, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 11:14:31PM -0400, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
>>>> Someone pointed out "assets" is very broad, and that would include
>>>> things like hardware donations (something I don't think would be wise).
>>>>
>>>> I would hereby like to amend my proposal by replacing "assets" by
>>>> "financial assets":
>>>>
>>>> ==== Text of GR ====
>>>>
>>>> Donations to the Debian project of *financial* assets other than the
>>>> TO's currency of choice should be liquidated as soon as possible.
>>>>
>>>> ==== End Text of GR ====
>>>
>>> I'd suggest you also provide a definition.  Do you intend to prevent a TO 
>>> from accepting donated frequent flyer miles and keeping them long enough to 
>>> provide an airplane ticket to someone who can't otherwise afford to go to 
>>> Debconf?  I'd say that the current text would require them to be converted 
>>> to cash and I don't think that would be the best thing.
>>
>> The definition of "financial asset" on Wikipedia is:
>>
>> "A non-physical asset whose value is derived from a contractual claim,
>> such as bank deposits, bonds, and participations in companies' share
>> capital."
> So no cryptocurrency or other probably easily liquidated things?

I'd argue cryptocurrency is a form of financial assets yes. This GR
would force TOs to liquidate donated cryptocurrency when they receive it
in the name of the Debian project.

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