-profit.
let me know,
sean.
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From: "Emiliano Heyns" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: [midgard] Founding a Midgard nonprofit (continued)
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On 30 Mar, Ron Parker wrote:
The primary asset is the code, correct? If the code is GPL and OSS, then
the code is forever freely available to the public whether the non-profit
enterprise disbands or continues to remain an organized effort. I
assume, this principle is a primary consideration
Henri Bergius wrote:
One would be the way Linux kernel is copyrighted. There every
contributor owns the code he has written there. The problem
with this is that changing the license (if GPL begins causing
some problems, for example) would require acceptance from
*all* code contributors,
On 30 Mar, Emiliano Heyns wrote:
If under "The Midgard Project, Ry", probably. But nothing's keeping
any person or firm from offering Midgard consulting, so even if
"we" want to go commercial, we can do so.
Yes. The idea of the nonprofit is just to
provide the infrastructure (servers, mailing
On 30 Mar, Emiliano Heyns wrote:
On the topic of assets: I propose we have a clause in our regulations
stating that if we are ever to disband "The Midgard Project, Ry", any
assets remaining are donated to charity.
Under the Finnish law, the possible disbanding is
decided by a general meeting
Henri Bergius wrote:
Yes. The idea of the nonprofit is just to
provide the infrastructure (servers, mailing
lists, etc) for the project and ensure that
all parties involved have equal opportunities
in using Midgard and doing business with it.
I feel that doing things like consulting work
Henri Bergius wrote:
Under the Finnish law, the possible disbanding is
decided by a general meeting of the organization.
Usually the regulations state that the assets
of the organization are at that point donated
onwards to advancement of the organization's goals.
For us, that could mean
On 30 Mar, Emiliano Heyns wrote:
How many of us do live in Finland?
I guess that enough, the board should be too big
for practical reasons anyway.
Also, if we want to have more foreign board
members, we can ask for the permission, and
if I understood correctly that is just a
formality, and so
Henri Bergius wrote:
I also checked whether the bureau has problems
with a nonprofit owning large amounts of property
(thinking about current software valuations, the
Midgard core library copyrights could be seen
as very valuable), and it seems that there are
no problems here, as long as
Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
I also checked whether the bureau has problems
with a nonprofit owning large amounts of property
(thinking about current software valuations, the
Midgard core library copyrights could be seen
as very valuable), and it seems that there are
no problems here, as
Emiliano Heyns wrote:
Is the consulting services for Midgard installation and support could
break this?
If under "The Midgard Project, Ry", probably. But nothing's keeping
any person or firm from offering Midgard consulting, so even if
"we" want to go commercial, we can do so.
On the
Is the consulting services for Midgard installation and support could
break this?
If under "The Midgard Project, Ry", probably. But nothing's keeping
any person or firm from offering Midgard consulting, so even if
"we" want to go commercial, we can do so.
On the topic of assets:
Ron Parker wrote:
On the topic of assets: I propose we have a clause in our regulations
stating that if we are ever to disband "The Midgard Project, Ry", any
assets remaining are donated to charity.
The primary asset is the code, correct? If the code is GPL and OSS, then
the code is
Hi,
Need ftp resources too?
I have a ftp site which i'm not using, has 25megs of space,and is on a fast
line..
Maarten Stolte
-Original Message-
From: Henri Bergius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 1:13 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [midgard] Founding
On 29 Mar, Maarten Stolte wrote:
Hi,
Greetings!
Need ftp resources too?
I have a ftp site which i'm not using, has 25megs of space,and is on a fast
line..
Sure! It would be nice to have some mirror sites serving
the release versions.
At first, if you can manually mirror the 1.2.5 sources
Hello Henri,
Tuesday, March 28, 2000, 11:03:10 PM, you wrote:
The project has been growing steadily for the last year, and now it
could be a good point to organize a bit. We could found a nonprofit
organization to handle some aspects of this project. The benefits
here would be the
On 29 Mar, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
Hello Henri,
Greetings!
OK for me (I'm too busy with my work on Ph.D. thesis and work in
University to be daily involved with administration duties)
Good. Now, the first board could be the following:
Eero af Heurlin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Hello Henri,
Wednesday, March 29, 2000, 5:27:47 PM, you wrote:
OK for me (I'm too busy with my work on Ph.D. thesis and work in
University to be daily involved with administration duties)
Good. Now, the first board could be the following:
Eero af Heurlin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Greetings!
The project has been growing steadily for the last
year, and now it could be a good point to organize
a bit.
We could found a nonprofit organization to handle
some aspects of this project. The benefits here would
be the ability to own property and handle donations
without having to
Greetings!
The project has been growing steadily for the last
year, and now it could be a good point to organize
a bit.
We could found a nonprofit organization to handle
some aspects of this project. The benefits here would
be the ability to own property and handle donations
without having to
Henri Bergius wrote:
We could found a nonprofit organization to handle
some aspects of this project. The benefits here would
be the ability to own property and handle donations
without having to channel those through private
contributors. The money would at first be going for
things like
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