[kde-usa] KDE U.S. NPO

[Claudia Rauch]

On 9 May 2012 03:12, Steve Hay <hay.steve at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

I think it is mostly a matter of other priorities, but Lydia, maybe
you can comment. I suppose it won't hurt to get a proposal from SPI.

> 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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