Martin Ellison wrote:
Do check the legal situation. You may find that you need some kind of
permit or registration if you are soliciting donations from the public.
Also remember that Lumiera is an international project so you have
cross-jurisdictional issues ie the laws of more than on e country to
consider. Will Lumiera have a 'home' country? Will there be a 'Lumiera
Foundation' (like the Blender Foundation or the Wikipedia Foundation)?
We prevent this burecracy by making donations on a personal/private
base. Donations won't go to a 'project' or 'organization' but between
private persons in most cases. Either as as personal gifts or worked out
as contracts, whatever donor and reciever acknowlege. So far there will
be no cash/fund going to the 'project', people can place promises on
http://www.pipapo.org/pipawiki/Lumiera/Donations which are non binding.
When they really acknowledge money or goods transfers this will
generally be between the two persons directly involved, in most cases a
private-private relationship. As far I know there are no laws which
require to tax gifts or forbid recieving/asking for them, but I am not a
lawyer.
For bounties which can be seen as a contract this might turn out that
the reciever is taken as business person (depending on the legislation
where he lives), it could even be that reciever has to tax it.
When the donor is some kind of business or organization then some laws
might apply for that, but generally I assume that a business is free to
spend its money for whatever it wants (still legislations may differ),
as long it can account it in its books somehow.
Of course this gifts or bounties are not Tax deductible like a charity
in no way.
So far we trying to make this a test and lets see if it even works. When
it works with more success as expected, which means we get a lot of
donation this way (well maybe after there will be a useable Lumiera, I
don't really expect it now). Then we might care for setting up a charity
or foundation. So far the project is growing and current donation won't
justify all the work, time and money involved setting up such an
organizational form.
Christian
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