On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 07:27:03AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > I don't know the status of holdings in Australia and Brazil. > Are they retained profits from events? DebConf6 seemed to > be privately run for debian, supported by SPI. I assumed > that any surplus will be donated to debian, but I don't know. Brazil's was retained profits from DC4; it was unrealistic to bring the money back out of the country, so AIUI it was instead used as the seed for a local Debian presence. In Australia, I think it's Linux AU that accepts these donations? > > Wow, in what sense are donations *not received by SPI* "earnings"? > It's money given to an SPI member project for whom any donations > must be made to SPI. How can they be earnings of anyone else? Because they've never been *given* to SPI? > BTW, I don't agree that it's not a donation - once the donor > donates, it looks like one to me, no matter what account at > what trusted party it goes to. Would arguing otherwise > really satisfy the taxman? Er... yes, actually, it would. IANACPA, but SPI would not have to report as income any donations received on Debian's behalf by a European organization unless those funds were subsequently transferred to *SPI's* possession (as opposed to simply being disbursed per the DPL). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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