From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jun 12 01:27:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA06473 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:27:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail-gw3.pacbell.net (mail-gw3.pacbell.net [206.13.28.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA06322; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:26:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jackv@earthling.net) Received: from eliot.pacbell.net (ppp-206-170-1-231.snfc21.pacbell.net [206.170.1.231]) by mail-gw3.pacbell.net (8.8.8/8.7.1+antispam) with SMTP id BAA08081; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:26:50 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jack Velte" To: , "phil grainger" Cc: Subject: Re: copyright Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:13:24 -0700 Message-ID: <01bd95d9$f8a13c00$e701aace@eliot.pacbell.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: phil grainger >well I appreciate from a theoretical point of view that the bsd copyright >may be more pure, >Maybe we should advocate freebsd inc. becoming a registered charity just to >maintain the legal and ideological purity. jordan, is freebsd, inc a non-profit organization? you'll need to hire an extra secretary for that paperwork, though. maybe? then at some point sales would become contributions. two bar codes on a product, with two prices? computer issue charitable contribution irs forms twice in the spring. this would an interesting shareware experiment. or even more prices on the box the store can sell - the year contract. i don't think a non-profit organization can issue stock, though, and it really has zero to do with the copyright on the code. -jack >maybe advocacy is becoming an irrelevent part of the freebsd project. no, not at all. i think it needs to be a little better organized. like, some web page project boards. +voting boards tied to project boards. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message