Re: Future code ownership

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl@eCosCentric.com>]

Gary Thomas wrote:
> 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.

Indeed, the summary was that it was a) very unlikely that an open source 
project could be considered a sufficiently good work for the purposes of 
being designated a charity, and b) out of the question for any money from 
licence revenue to be used in the way we'd want it.

Jifl
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