Gregers Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear all > > There has for a while been discussions amongst the dev-group about > making the big step towards OpenWrt.org achieving non-profit status. > > This would imply a number of future benifits and organizational changes > to the project itself - but, there are also several practical hurdles > which have to be crossed before the imagined line can be crossed. > > The primary challenge is if OpenWrt.org should either: > > 1. Build an independent non-profit foundation
This is a lot of work, so personally I'd prefer if you kept focused on improving openwrt rather than dealing with paper work. My home network depends on it. ;) > 2. Join on eof the exisitng umbrella entities, such as; > > www.fsfeurope.org/projects/ftf/fiduciary.en.html As far as I understand, this is only about copyright assignment, not about getting a non-profit status. If you believe getting a non-profit status in the US will help getting donations (and I believe that is likely), I think you need an umbrella with US-presence and non-profit registration. Which leaves these two: > - SPI (donations, legal service + european partner) > www.spi-inc.org/ Does SPI really have a european partner? If so that may be an advantage, but I haven't heard about it. > - Software Freedom Conservancy (legal help, donations) > conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/ Comparing SPI and SFC seems difficult. Even looking at the projects suggest both would be appropriate for OpenWRT: SFC has BusyBox and uClibc, and SPI has madwifi.org. One technical difference between SPI and SFC seem to be that SPI uses Click&Pledge and SFC uses GoogleCheckout for donations. Perhaps asking the busybox/uclibc/madwifi projects how well their umbrellas work for them could give some insight. Good luck, /Simon _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
