Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> writes: >> Have you read >> >> http://lwn.net/Articles/514964/ > > Not yet, thanks for that! > >> on Bradley Kuhn's >> >> http://sfconservancy.org/ > > Actually, I've already asked for making FreeType a conservancy member > some months ago, and it seems to be a quite slow process... > > Maybe we should do the same for LilyPond.
They then manage the project funds (deducting a flat 10%) which are only to be used for non-profit purposes. I don't see that my personal situation, working on LilyPond financed by its users, could be labelled as non-profit since it is my sole source of income, and I spend it almost entirely on non-LilyPond related expenses like rent, food, personal insurance and other stuff. Now of course my own financial setup is independent so it should not suffer majorly except that people like independent music publishers, some of which are among my supporters, would likely prefer tax-deductible donations to the LilyPond project, preferring non-profit donation targets. If we had significant non-profit expenses in the project, like hosting, or even computers (my current laptop as well as a backup desktop were donated by LilyPond users/developers), or conference and travel fees for LilyPond talks on conferences, having a separate non-profit money channel would make independent sense. But "provide a living for David, so that he can continue to diddle away on LilyPond just at what catches his fancy on the spur of a moment" will be a hard sell to an organisation which ultimately has to report to tax authorities about their non-profit expenses and planning. Hey, it is not even an easy sell on the LilyPond users we can reach ourselves, and I guess that the audience reached by the SFC would not be that much larger since they don't magically have funds that have _not_ been contributed to them for a _particular_ project. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user