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Re: Future code ownership


On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 09:42, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > 5) A new not-for-profit organisation, e.g. "the eCos foundation". There is 
> > considerable difficulty for non-USers to set this up, and the process can 
> > take upwards of 6 months I believe. There may also be tedious obligations 
> > and overhead like accounts, board meetings, blah blah. Plus without any 
> > experience we may need lawyers, and therefore fees, etc. as well as any 
> > other charges for setting it up.
> 
> What about the English equivalent? I guess that means getting Charity
> status. Have you look at this option? I guess it still needs lawyers
> etc.
> 

Yes, Jonathan looked into this at length.  It did not seem to be
a very workable (hardly possible) solution.
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