Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
some legal body was on my wishlist for some time already, it would allow us to accept (tax deductible) donations and might be good to have if we ever run into legal problems.but setting up some legal body (for example german "verein") and getting the irs status for non profit organisation would have been a lot of work etc. now enter the software freedom law center and their latest project: conservancy. they are setting up one legal entity and doing all the paper work, and any number of projects can get under their hood, thus get all the benefits, but with no or little work and still keep full control of the actual software project. I think this is a very cool idea, and I asked for more details. please have a look at http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/ and let me know what you think about it.
a technical question: who can decide if opensc should become a legal entity ? Over the time a lot of people have contributed code to opensc and it's not really practical to ask everyone who has been involved in this project ... Cheers, Nils _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
