Hi, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote on 2011-06-05 16.41:
Non-profit foundations are constrained to act in certain ways. For example, it is hard for either the Apache or the Free Software Foundations to close source donated code.
that's the same for a German-based foundation, and exactly the same for a German-based nonprofit association, which we currently have as legal entity. So, no difference at all, except for the location. :) The German association also is bound to their statutes and rules.
Workarounds would have been possible but would have been slower and less certain to succeed. Donation to a existing non-profit foundation with an established governance model is a quick and sure way to get the code out from for-profit corporate control and to the community.
That point has been repeaded over and over again, but basically you are saying everyone "Do not set up your own foundation at all, we alreadyh have enough."
Besides, the currently existing association has a governance model, is non-profit and donations are tax-deductible. So, I really don't see this as an issue, and I guess we would have had a similar discussion of the foundation was already in effect. ;)
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