See https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundrais...
Should Wikimedia take funds from the Kremlin, North Korea and Drug cartels, or should they have limits on ethical sources of funding?
You don't have to answer what you would do, but it is 100% legitimate for them to choose to have clear, written guidelines on what funds they ethically agree to accept.
It's more equivalent to accepting donations in roubles, in North Korean won or in the form of legal drug caches.
It's not about the source, but the means of the payment. I can imagine people accepting money from dubious sources, but not via dubious means and vice-versa.
I didn't say it was the same, just that they can choose to draw a line somewhere.
> It's more equivalent to accepting donations in roubles
And many are in fact drawing the line at that.
> I can imagine people accepting money from dubious sources, but not via dubious means and vice-versa
Agreed, though I think that once you start looking into ethical funding "why not both" is going to be a common position.
I think we can all agree that wikimedia is a net positive in the world.