Re: Donations
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 03:57:11PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
> Martin Wuertele <maxx@debian.org> wrote:
> > If a company holds money on behalf of Debian and they don't charge
> > Debian with taxes that is fine imo as the Debian-money is not touched by
> > taxes in that case.
>
> I disagree. There are also concerns about who profits from holding it.
> For example, should a commercial trader be able to use Debian-money as
> working capital if they will pay it out when instructed?
>
I'm not convinced any organisation could hold funds as working capital
if it's already been committed, as it will be in this case.
Prehaps specifying that any donations received must be available to be
transfered to us immediately upon request may be beneficial. I'm not
sure how best to word this to allow for bank delays (eg: credit card
clearance etc).
To be honest, if a orgainsation didn't follow this guideline, I woudn't
be happy using them to accept donations.
Regards,
Neil
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