Hi! On Saturday 12 February 2011, Florian Effenberger wrote: > for the Foundation fundraising, I plan to have a banner (or maybe > rotating banners) at top of each site, i.e. all native language sites > and all others like LibreOffice-Box.
While I support this initiative I'm a bit worried if putting such banner on the Finnish website might cause legal problems for me and other editors of the Finnish website. Collecting money by appealing to the public for donations requires a permit under Finnish law. Here is some info in English: http://www.poliisi.fi/poliisi/home.nsf/pages/562C8788A7A74631C2256C29003042D8?opendocument Unfortunately the translation is a bit incomplete but hopefully understandable. TDF of course does not operate under Finnish law and the servers are in (mostly?) in Germany. But since all of us who maintain the Finnish website are Finnish residents and the site is mostly targeted for Finns I am fairly confident that the law does apply to us. Violating this law could mean up to two years in prison for those responsible of collecting money against the law. For this reason the Finnish website does not have a donations page and we don't even mention the possibility of giving donations. I could try to get us the required permit. I know some Finnish free software projects have got one but I'm afraid in this case it won't be easy and it definitely will take some time. Harri -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/website/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***