[kde-usa] KDE U.S. NPO

[Steve Hay]

Jeff,

Is this a matter of the board having other priorities and putting this
issue aside, or are there issues being raised with the terms which have
been offered? Would it make sense to get a proposal from SPI as well, so
the two can be directly compared?

Forgive me if these are topics already covered-- just trying to see where I
might be able to help, if possible.

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org> wrote:

> 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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