On Jun 27, 2007, at 18:11, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Keith M Wesolowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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).
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).
OpenOffice.org recently decided[1] to ask Software in the Public
Interest[2] to act on their behalf as a non-profit foundation to
handle donations of money. Creating an internationally-useful
mechanism to accept donations is very hard work and this route seems
smart to me. Not that we actually have a problem that needs solving
right now[3] - it's not clear to me why we're spending time on it.
S.
[1] http://council.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?
listName=discuss&msgNo=1146
[2] http://www.spi-inc.org/
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Ain't_Gonna_Need_It
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