On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Karen Sandler <karen@...41...> wrote:
The Google reimbursements aren't income.
Understood.
That sounds fine. I actually proposed in #inkscape-devel that instead
of a
retroactive 10%, you just give us an amount that corresponds to a small
annual donation. For example you've given OSUOSL $200 every year, so maybe
you want to give us an amount that's equal to a retroactive $400 per year
(or whatever you are comfortable with)? It would make for a nice public
statement too :)
The donation approach sounds MUCH more palatable and appealing in
fact. We do feel we owe you all, and we want to show our appreciation.
We will let you know what we settle on, but I would say having
language in the FSA to deal with it rather than it being on our honor
is probably not the best approach.
Actually, this provision hasn't changed since the initial
agreement I wrote
back in 2006 :)
I'm not surprised. I probably also didn't scrutinize things as much
the first time I read through it.
It's drafted so that the project has as much chance as possible
to find
another organization (Conservancy can only object if it's reasonable - for
example, say Inkscape wants to transfer its assets to TagSoup - a
proprietary software nonprofit). I don't think we can make this provision
any looser without running afoul of our tax obligations - once assets are in
a c3 charitable organization they can't just be transferred to anyone, since
they are being held in the public's interest.
Thank you for the clarification. This put me more at ease personally,
but there is kind of part of me that wants to ask is it possible to
distill it down with a leading statement that says something to the
effect of "For the protection of of SFC and the Project, if our
relationship is to be terminated it needs to be inline with all
related tax obligations and the public interest, which entails:"
I hope this helps.
It did, as always, thank you for your time and patience for those of
use who are protective and somewhat concerned oldtimers with the
project.
Cheers,
Josh