CivicSpace Labs is now a non-profit organization. Since all our code is Drupal code except install.php, the configure module, and soon to be obsolete Contact Manager. We are about as close a match to a Drupal foundation as you are going to get. Does that work for you all? Kieran On Jul 2, 2005, at 8:08 PM, David Norman wrote:
Boris Mann wrote:
Some devil's advocate questions: How much does non-profit / tax deduction matter? Does it *have* to be a non-profit? There are tax-write offs, and then there are business write offs.
I'd say if you're going to forfeit profits, go all the way and get the IRS recognition paperwork filed for the USA's entity. If you want to play devil's advocate, I think a better question might be to ask whether the Drupal entity should be run for-profit. Developers are a large part students right now, but at some point they're going to need regular income that a for-profit unit could theoretically provide.
[switch out of devil's advocate mode] That's not to say Drupal couldn't have tax-exempt, non-profit and for-profit entities.