| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Perens <bruce(at)perens(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Russ Nelson <nelson(at)crynwr(dot)com>, spi-private(at)lists(dot)spi-inc(dot)org, spi-general(at)lists(dot)spi-inc(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [Spi-private] Re: money handling |
| Date: | 2006-07-17 16:40:23 |
| Message-ID: | 44BBBD77.2040308@commandprompt.com |
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Bruce Perens wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
>> In theory, yes. In practice, that would amount only to witholding
>> funds which were requested for something not allowed to 501(c)3s. I
>> personally can't imagine the PostgreSQL project requesting anything
>> that wasn't "software in the public interest" related.
> The relationship between the non-profit project and the commercial
> companies involved in it can be problematical. You can't carry out
> activities using non-profit funds whose main purpose is to facilitate
> their business.
PostgreSQL.Org doesn't do that except in the sense that it creates
PostgreSQL.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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