On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 12:57:55AM +0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org> [2020-03-18 12:52]: > > Would you care to elaborate on what "the Yorba determination" is? I > > couldn't find anything online about this... > > There was a time when the IRS didn't approve any new 501(c)(3) > applications for open source related organizations and basically put > them on ice. > > I thought this got resolved though in the meantime (years ago). > > https://blogs.gnome.org/jnelson/2014/06/30/the-new-501c3-and-the-future-of-free-software-in-the-united-states/ > https://opensource.org/node/840 > The two links from Martin are probably the best background reading. the tldr versions is: making FOSS is not enough to gain 501c3 status by itself. Neil --
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