On 25/04/2020 02:01, Slávek Banko wrote:
On Friday 24 of April 2020 20:03:50 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
This is a combined reply to Slavek, David and Michael :)
None of these "for free" or "for little fee" platform/companies will make [TDE-ORG] a legal entity. It's quite the contary: Now Tim is the legal burdon-carrier. The moment TDE leaves his nest, it's on it's own. In the worst case this is a fork - with possible the consequence of loosing TDE as a trademark and name. Having mentioned trademark: in Austria trademarks are quite cheep, I remember I payed € 250.- for 10 years, but trademarks are given to legal entities, not projects.
The moment [TDE-ORG] takes money, it needs to be a legal entity. Again, now it's Tim. If [TDE-ORG] wants to move away from busfactor=1 to e.g. busfactor=6, then 6 people will need to form a legal entity. Where that entity is located is essential in almost any sense: copyright, legal satatus, tax, domain, ...
I strongly suggest that everybody tries to figure out his/her countries legal situation concerning NGOs/association and the like. EU is not that unified as it might appear. There is a list of must-haves:
- VAT exemption, aka 0% VAT rate.
- no tax requirement if income (in minus out) is lower € XXX (which
happens to be ~ 5500.- in Austria) - simple bookkeeping requirements (in, out)
- who is allowed to be board member (Austria: everybody AFAIK)
ANd stay away from US legislation :)
Nik
Hi Nik, all,
I dare to disagree with a number of opinions.
Tim founded the project, Tim was its leader, Tim agreed to hand over the role of project leader. As far as I know, there is no registered trademark for which Tim would be its holder. Therefore, I believe that there is no reason to claim that only Tim is the legal holder for project. Tim, as an ordinary natural person, handed over the role of project leader, so I don't find a reason to call it a fork.
First comment on this thread and I've, at best, only skin read it but I have to agree with Slávek on this. Not sure why or how this thread had rampaged, out of control almost, in the direction it has but hey guys, its a software project aimed at saving a great desktop environment, which it is doing very well. That's it, nothing more, nothing less. Why would you want to go and spoil it?
In the words of that famous song, 'Call somewhere paradise and kiss it goodbye".
Long live the TDE software project :)