From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 18 10: 7:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from maila.ptd.net (mail1a.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8920037B422 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:07:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 29599 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2001 17:05:49 -0000 Received: from mail1.ha-net.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) ([207.44.96.65]) (envelope-sender ) by smtpa.ha-net.ptd.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 18 Apr 2001 17:05:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 27471 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2001 17:07:26 -0000 Received: from du53.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) ([204.186.33.53]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.ptd.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 18 Apr 2001 17:07:26 -0000 Message-ID: <3ADDC97B.62B88DC2@mail.ptd.net> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:06:03 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" Organization: None X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010418003011.045ef3b0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010418064119.04710720@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > > At 02:16 AM 4/18/2001, Trevor Johnson wrote: > > >I guess the FSF will have to run off donations when that happens. > > It should be running off of donations NOW. It's a 501(c)(3) non-profit > corporation, which means that profits from sales are considered > to be "unrelated business income." A 501(c)(3) must get at least half > of its income from donations -- a requirement which the FSF itself > claims that it has not met. (Its Web site says that more than half > of its income comes from sales.) The IRS should yank its tax-exempt > status. It's not at all clear that selling free software is an "unrelated" business for the FSF (26 USC 513). Even if it were, the FSF would just have to pay the tax on the income; it would not lose its status (26 USC 511). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message