[drupal-devel] Drupal foundation / non-profit

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, 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.

I don't think that "income for developers" should be on the agenda for
such a foundation.

Cheers,
	Gerhard