On 2014-02-14 16:39, Florian Müllner wrote:
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:27 PM, alex diavatis
<[email protected]> wrote:
there is any legal issue that prevent gnome to introduce a per-user
revenue
model, or in other words commercial services over open source
solutions?
Being a non-profit organization[0], I would assume so (but then I am
not a lawyer).
We are a 501(c)(3) organization, but that doesn't mean we can't ever
charge for services. Basically it's more of a matter of whether the
income is taxed or not, and to make sure that this kind of activity
isn't a substantial part of what we do. This is of course an over
simplification, but you can read more about the details in the part of
the legal primer I wrote when I was at SFLC:
http://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/foss-primer.html#x1-370003.5.3
Of course, no matter what we do it should always be to forward software
freedom and GNOME technologies :)
karen
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501%28c%29_organization
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