[kde-usa] [kde-promo] KDE U.S. NPO

[Jeff Mitchell]

On 5/8/2012 6:08 PM, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> On 5/8/2012 5:29 PM, Steve Hay wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 19:30, Lydia Pintscher <lydia at kde.org> wrote:
>>> Let's talk about this in a less public place.
>>
>> I am interested in helping out if possible. Let me know where you guys
>> are on this. If you need help on the tax law I can poke around some of
>> my friends and see if they know anything on how to do this.
> 
> The status is basically the same as it was before.
> 
> The SFC provides patent infringement protection for the coders working
> on the project, SPI does not. That was one of the reasons we'd been
> trying to get in with the SFC. Also because nobody figured it'd be going
> so slowly. In the mean time both SFC and KDE have changed.
> 
> It's still up to the Board. They need to decide whether to accept SFC's
> current terms, or whether to ditch them as an option once and for all.
> 
> I've been pushing this with the board quite actively for > 2 years and
> passively for more, and I'm happy to keep working on it, but it's up to
> the Board right now.
> 
> I've CC'd Claudia, who may know more about the current situation/Board
> deliberations.

BTW, let's keep discussion of the NPO on this list, please. I'm not sure
why it was cross-posted to kde-promo before but I don't think all
replies went to both lists, so people not watching both were left out of
parts of it.

This is the more focused and sensible place for its discussion.

--Jeff


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