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Delays in sub-contracting the lawyer to support the development of a GPL-compatible copyleft hardware licence

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	===Delays in sub-contracting the lawyer to support the development of a GPL-compatible copyleft hardware licence===		===Delays in sub-contracting the lawyer to support the development of a GPL-compatible copyleft hardware licence===
	Work Package 2 faced delays also on the front of the GPL-compatible copyleft hardware licence development (task 2.6 and 2.7). While the leadership and the responsibility of these tasks remained on FSI, the PO mandated that the budget of 100kEUR to engage a lawyer to be reallocated from FSI to EDI. This created a '''paradoxical situation''' where the responsibility and the control of the tasks had been separated. Despite numerous reminders and several iterations on requirements and specifications, EDI failed to publish the [https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php?title=Tender_for_GPL-compatible_hardware_licence_development tender] to engage the lawyer for over 20 months from the Project begin, seriously compromising the associated tasks and deliverables. Given that time was running out, FSI called for a Consortium General Assembly to evaluate whether EDI was in breach of contract. The General Assembly took place on 15 May 2024 -the day before the first official Project Review Meeting- and EDI finally published the very same day the [https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php?title=Tender_for_GPL-compatible_hardware_licence_development first tender]. However, without consulting FSI, EDI set a submission deadline as short as two weeks and requested the application to be submitted in Latvian. Following FSI's protest, the deadline was then extended to 3 July 2025 and submissions in English were accepted too. Ironically, despite months of previous discussions, FSI was not consulted for the preparation of the last version of the tender which set requirements that FSI considered nearly impossible to satisfy. Indeed, the only person who applied was rejected for not qualifying to the call. EDI issued then a [https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php?title=Tender_for_GPL-compatible_hardware_licence_development second tender], the same applicant applied again and he was finally engaged starting from 1 September 2024 (exactly two years from Project's begin, and just 6 months before the retroactive End-of-Work date of 28 February 2025). Despite the difficult circumstances, FSI and the lawyer worked intensively together and could develop in record time a first draft of the licence. EDI -which played only the administrative role of budget "gateway" for the European Commission- is now currently disallowing FSI from publishing the licence claiming sole ownership. See [[~~GoIT_project~~#List_of_milestones_and_status\|the section about the current status]] for more details.		Work Package 2 faced delays also on the front of the GPL-compatible copyleft hardware licence development (task 2.6 and 2.7). While the leadership and the responsibility of these tasks remained on FSI, the PO mandated that the budget of 100kEUR to engage a lawyer to be reallocated from FSI to EDI. This created a '''paradoxical situation''' where the responsibility and the control of the tasks had been separated. Despite numerous reminders and several iterations on requirements and specifications, EDI failed to publish the [https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php?title=Tender_for_GPL-compatible_hardware_licence_development tender] to engage the lawyer for over 20 months from the Project begin, seriously compromising the associated tasks and deliverables. Given that time was running out, FSI called for a Consortium General Assembly to evaluate whether EDI was in breach of contract. The General Assembly took place on 15 May 2024 -the day before the first official Project Review Meeting- and EDI finally published the very same day the [https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php?title=Tender_for_GPL-compatible_hardware_licence_development first tender]. However, without consulting FSI, EDI set a submission deadline as short as two weeks and requested the application to be submitted in Latvian. Following FSI's protest, the deadline was then extended to 3 July 2025 and submissions in English were accepted too. Ironically, despite months of previous discussions, FSI was not consulted for the preparation of the last version of the tender which set requirements that FSI considered nearly impossible to satisfy. Indeed, the only person who applied was rejected for not qualifying to the call. EDI issued then a [https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php?title=Tender_for_GPL-compatible_hardware_licence_development second tender], the same applicant applied again and he was finally engaged starting from 1 September 2024 (exactly two years from Project's begin, and just 6 months before the retroactive End-of-Work date of 28 February 2025). Despite the difficult circumstances, FSI and the lawyer worked intensively together and could develop in record time a first draft of the licence. EDI -which played only the administrative role of budget "gateway" for the European Commission- is now currently disallowing FSI from publishing the licence claiming sole ownership. See [[GoIT_Project#List_of_milestones_and_status\|the section about the current status]] for more details.

	=== "Bad-faith" allegations, breach/default/termination votes on FSI, retroactive End-of-Work date===		=== "Bad-faith" allegations, breach/default/termination votes on FSI, retroactive End-of-Work date===

Admin: Created page with "The '''GoIT Project''' (Grant Agreement No. 101070660) was a Coordination and Support Action (CSA) project funded under the European Union's Horizon Europe framework, specifically under call ''[https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-cl4-2021-digital-emerging-01-05 HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-05: Open Source Hardware for ultra-low-power, secure processors]''. The project started on 1 September 202..."

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Created page with "The '''GoIT Project''' (Grant Agreement No. 101070660) was a Coordination and Support Action (CSA) project funded under the European Union's Horizon Europe framework, specifically under call ''[https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-cl4-2021-digital-emerging-01-05 HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-05: Open Source Hardware for ultra-low-power, secure processors]''. The project started on 1 September 202..."

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