Xfce Foundation status

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 11:18:02 +0200
Fabian Nowak <timystery at arcor.de> wrote:

> Am Samstag, den 16.10.2010, 18:00 +0200 schrieb Jannis Pohlmann:
> > On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:40:13 +0200
> > Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:31:39 +0200
> > > Fabian Nowak <timystery at arcor.de> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Am Samstag, den 16.10.2010, 12:29 +0200 schrieb Jon:
> > > > > On Thursday 14 October 2010 21:56:21 Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> > > > > > > "Foundation" also seems to be quite common as part of the
> > > > > > > name regardless of the concrete legal entity, so it
> > > > > > > probably is a good choice as long as there is no German
> > > > > > > law preventing that.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I'm pretty sure there's no such law. The LXDE Foundation is
> > > > > > a German e.V. as well. And yes, in informal contexts one
> > > > > > can leave out the "e.V.".
> > > > > 
> > > > > Yes, that would not be a problem. We could not name it e. g.
> > > > > Xfce GmbH e. V. as "GmbH" is a proper legal form in Germany.
> > > > > "Foundation" however, is not.
> > > > 
> > > > Naming the e.V. "Xfce Foundation" results in not being able to
> > > > raise a foundation for Xfce that would be named "Foundation". 
> > > 
> > > I seriously doubt that anyone would ever want to create a SECOND
> > > non-profit organization for the same purpose. So this argument is
> > > irrelevant.
> 
> Two things:
> 1) The Xfce * e.V ist not meant as a foundation from my understanding
> of the discussion.
> 2) Why can you argue that noone would want to raise a real foundation
> dedicted to Xfce? Already among this discussion here have been
> statements that people wanted to donate.
> Maybe the entire document/discussion is unclear and one should try to
> make Xfce * e.V. also a real foundation by the whole concept. Then
> naming it this way would be very fine.

I think there is a misunderstanding here. An non-profit e.V. can
receive donations just fine. People can even deduct their donations
from the taxes they pay (or rather from the taxable income).

Please inform yourself next time you enter a discussion. Otherwise the
tag "ridiculous" is quickly going to be applied to your own behaviour.

  - Jannis
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