-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David White schrieb: | Anyhow, I'm going to throw this out to any questions or comments people | might have.
My opinion regarding Wesnoth becoming part of a foundation / founding one ourselves: Yes, makes a lot sense since we at least need a solution for the money we would get from SoC. A foundation which would not have to pay taxes on it would be the best solution, since we then could directly spend the money on funding a server or keeping it for a possible wesconf. Founding one our selves seems to be a huge load of work, at least in Germany it is not too easy to become a so called "gemeinnütziger Verein" and we would have to do a lot of paperwork every year. I suspect that it would be a lot of work to get accepted as foundation in the US, too, though maybe not as much as for Germany (looks like some people here *love* paperwork ;) ). So joining an existing (or one currently being founded) umbrella foundation sounds like an interesting option to me. My main question is: What would the consequences for us be? That is meant as in those questions: * What will we have to do to get in there? * Which benefits will we have from it? * Will it cost us anything (money or freedom for our project)? * What will be handled by the foundation, what will be done by us? * What is the situation of our copyright and will anything change due to joining the Copyleft Games Group (or any other umbrella foundation)? At the moment I think we don't have a single copyright holder, right? * What would we have to do to get access to the money when we need it for eg acquiring a server? * If we would want to leave the foundation again for any reason, what would the impact on our project be, would it be possible at all, would we have to join another foundation / create our own one, what is needed and what about the assets (server, ...) we bought in the time we were part of the foundation? Yes, this is a rather lengthy list, but I hope it is rather complete with the open questions I currently see. In general I am all for a clear way regarding our "cash politics" and would, of course, prefer one where we don't have to pay extra taxes on the money. Cheers, Nils Kneuper aka Ivanovic -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH5tQbfFda9thizwURAp+jAJ0YfMljSgVW+4mT7o/n7QSYB0BfhQCgoiFQ G/xH6LfmVnuZDAVqvyEKLs4= =WTty -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
