[Qgis-psc] QGIS.ORG activity concept

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi, 

Well if they do a thorough review of our organization, they will for
sure stumble over the fact, that there are commercial support companies
around QGIS. Better to be upfront with this matter and explain the
situation, in my opinion. 

I also don't see this as a problem. There are numerous examples where
open source organizations received non-profit status, where they have a
similar setup like we (voluntary efforts in the non-profit part and paid
efforts handled through separate companies): LibreOffice, Apache,
Firefox, Inkscape, Gnome, KDE, etc. 

In the letter I send to the tax authorities I will also point to these
projects that already received non-profit status and point to the
situation where the german QGIS user group is also officiall tax exempt.
They had to run through a similar process. 

Greetings, 

Andreas 

On 2017-12-12 08:46, Paolo Cavallini wrote:

> Hi Andreas,
> 
> Il 12/12/2017 08:35, Andreas Neumann ha scritto: 
> 
>> In our activity concept document I added a paragraph at the bottom
>> clarifying our relationship with commercial support companies. I thought
>> it would be benefitial and useful for the tax authorities to understand
>> our situation.
>> 
>> Could you please have a look at this new section at the bottom of our
>> document and comment specifically on this new section?
> 
> I think it is very clear for us. I'm unsure whether this may cause more
> uncertainty in the eyes of a lawyer, however.
> Is it possible to have a first check by the people in charge before
> officially submitting it?
> All the best, and again many thanks for dealing with this stuff.
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