Kevin Kofler wrote:
Rahul Sundaram <sundaram <at> fedoraproject.org> writes:
From the legal perspective that is pretty much irrelevant since Red Hat
is the legal entity that takes on liability for the Fedora Project but
A wacky idea, and I'm sure there are lots of reasons it is a bad idea, still
it's something I've been wondering about ever since the whole "Fedora
Foundation" talk: Why not create a Fedora foundation in a EU country? That
might help solve this issue. And wasn't the main problem with the idea of a
Fedora Foundation US tax laws? Maybe one of the EU countries has more
advantageous laws?
The administrative overhead in setting up a foundation is pretty high
and there are lots of limitations including how much a single
organization can fund a foundation and things like that. One way out
that I have suggested earlier (and got rejected) is
http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/
It is U.S based but if it is a foundation (by proxy) the liability is
much less. Moving from U.S to Europe isn't really a good solution if
there is no guarantee that the political powers in Europe won't make
things worse with all the constant lobbying going on. Red Hat and others
are pushing for patent reform in U.S and that IMO is a good thing to be
involved in. Refer http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CodecBuddy. This is
linked from the initial message in codeina.
Rahul
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