Keith M Wesolowski <Keith.Wesolowski at sun.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 04:03:40PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> > > There's a *lot* of legwork involved with becoming a non-profit - be it
> > > a 501(c)3 like Apache or a 501(c)6 like Eclipse. To qualify as a
> >
> > Without explaining these numbers, this looks like an insider discussion that
> > is not understood by most people in this group.
>
> They refer to parts of the United States Code dealing with tax-exempt
> and tax-advantaged organisations. See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c). Most US states have similar or
> "conforming" tax law; your jurisdiction may or may not offer similar
> provisions. As I noted briefly in my original suggestion to Darren,
> the international nature of our effort means that anyone wishing to
> work on this also needs to investigate and understand the effects on
> participants, directors, and would-be donors and award recipients
> outside the United States, and make provisions to give them comparable
> advantages where practical.
OK, I see that the real problem with making OpenSolaris.org a non-profit
organization would be to try to get this state in every country on the world.
In Germany, this takes ~ 5 years and AFAIR you need to pay VAT until
it has been aproved (then you will get the tax back).
J?rg
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