Nevertheless, violations of FLOSS licenses (in particular of

  the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GPL</a>

  and <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html">LGPL</a>) are all

  too common.  At request of the project's leaders, Conservancy can carry

  out license enforcement activity on behalf of the project's copyright

  holders.</p>

<h2>Fundraising Assistance</h2>

<p>Conservancy provides various tools and advice to member projects on

  methods of raising funds for their projects' earmarked accounts.</p>

<h2>Avoid Non-Profit Administrivia</h2>

<p>Member projects can continue to operate in the same way they did before

joining the Conservancy without having to select a board of directors or

any other layer of corporate management, without having to maintain

corporate records and without having to do any of the other things

required of incorporated entities.  The Conservancy handles all of that

burden on behalf of its projects.</p>

<h2>Leadership Mentoring, Advice and Guidance</h2>

  experienced FLOSS project leaders.  They offer themselves as a resource

  to member project leaders who need assistance or face challenges in

  their work leading their projects.</p>

<h2>Some Personal Liability Protection</h2>

<p>When a project joins Conservancy, it formally becomes part of the

  Conservancy. (The project is thus somewhat analogous to a division of a

  company or a department in a large agency.)  As such, project leaders

  benefit from some amount of protection from personal liability for their

  work on the project.</p>

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<p>Those familiar with non-profit terminology will recognize most of these

  services

  as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_sponsorship">fiscal

  sponsorship services</a>.  This term is not particularly well

  known in the FLOSS community, and many are confused by that term.

  However, if you are familiar with what a fiscal sponsor typically does

  in the non-profit sector, the term does fit many of services that

  Conservancy offers its member projects.</p>

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