From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6079 invoked by alias); 17 Dec 2002 20:00:50 -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 6065 invoked from network); 17 Dec 2002 20:00:47 -0000 Message-ID: <3DFF8251.4030606@eCosCentric.com> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:00:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020827 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Thomas CC: Andrew Lunn , eCos Maintainers Subject: Re: Future code ownership References: <3DFDF6B7.8090008@jifvik.org> <20021217164221.GC1044@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> <1040144188.22212.1692.camel@hermes.chez-thomas.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00012.txt.bz2 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 -- eCosCentric http://www.eCosCentric.com/ --[ "You can complain because roses have thorns, or you ]-- --[ can rejoice because thorns have roses." -Lincoln ]-- Opinions==mine