David, > The question for us is more about how to deal with the tax incurred > through raising the money. We are quite sure that our quite > exceptional members would use a donation button if we put one up. > PayPal already gave us clearance for that. But we do not know how to > declare this income in the tax forms of the person who will receive > the funds.
Then that's the reason to join SPI or SFLC Conservancy. Both of these are non-profit steward organizations who will collect and hold money for fink. We've been doing that for PostgreSQL for the last 2 years, and will soon launch our own US NPO, since we have the money to pay for it. Also, I'd recommend a non-Paypal donation option as well; a lot of OSS hackers avoid PayPal ever since the Abiword fiasco. > Thank you. I will do my best to look at the SPI and SFLC. We are all > well aware of the time we will need to spend on paperwork and meetings > and I am mnroe than happy to take up the paperwork part. > Would you be willing to share more of your experience with us? Sure, but better you can ask that on the FLOSSfoundations list once you're subscribed. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
