From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11872 invoked by alias); 17 Dec 2002 16:56:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 11862 invoked from network); 17 Dec 2002 16:56:40 -0000 Subject: Re: Future code ownership From: Gary Thomas To: Andrew Lunn Cc: Jonathan Larmour , eCos Maintainers In-Reply-To: <20021217164221.GC1044@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> References: <3DFDF6B7.8090008@jifvik.org> <20021217164221.GC1044@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 (1.0.3-4) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 08:56:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1040144188.22212.1692.camel@hermes.chez-thomas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00010.txt.bz2 On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 09:42, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > 5) A new not-for-profit organisation, e.g. "the eCos foundation". There is > > considerable difficulty for non-USers to set this up, and the process can > > take upwards of 6 months I believe. There may also be tedious obligations > > and overhead like accounts, board meetings, blah blah. Plus without any > > experience we may need lawyers, and therefore fees, etc. as well as any > > other charges for setting it up. > > What about the English equivalent? I guess that means getting Charity > status. Have you look at this option? I guess it still needs lawyers > etc. > Yes, Jonathan looked into this at length. It did not seem to be a very workable (hardly possible) solution. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | MLB Associates | Consulting for the +1 (970) 229-1963 | Embedded world http://www.mlbassoc.com/ | email: | gpg: http://www.chez-thomas.org/gary/gpg_key.asc ------------------------------------------------------------