`<div dir="ltr">On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Theo Schlossnagle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jesus@omniti.com" target="_blank">jesus@omniti.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">My experience here is limited to the United States for approaching these problems. I don't mean to indicate that it is the right solution, but I can only speak of what I know.<div><br></div><div>A legal entity must hold the assets. That can be a person, or a trust, or an corporation or a community*, etc. Community here is defined in such a way by the IRS that I don't believe we would ever quality (and it's never worth arguing). Given the history of "things" I would steer away from an individual and I feel that given unknown nature of assets required to operate and our weak starting point that a trust is likely not self-sustaining.<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>What I would suggest is us setting up an corporation here in the US, setting a purpose and a missions statement (that includes education and science as we do those and they are eligible for non-profit status), elect 5-7 board members (who will be legally responsible for the entity) come up with a small operating budget (< $10k USD) and apply for non-profit (501(3)c). This process would take a few hundreds of dollars.</div><div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div class="gmail_extra">My question here would be: Do it yourself, or apply to something like the Software Freedom Conservancy</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="https://sfconservancy.org/about/">https://sfconservancy.org/about/</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>and let them deal with the paperwork?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">-Peter Tribble<br><a href="http://www.petertribble.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.petertribble.co.uk/</a> - <a href="http://ptribble.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://ptribble.blogspot.com/</a></div>
</div></div>
`