On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:40:46PM -0700, Benj. Mako Hill wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 04:07:51PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 10:58:30PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > > > Charitable organisations have to fulfill a particular set of rules; like > > > > being educational, helping the homeless, that sort of thing. > > > True, but generally that list isn't exclusive -- > > AIUI, in .au the purposes have to cover everything that the organisation > > does, though. You could set up a charitable group that educates people on > > how to use Debian, but that's all it can do. Or you could setup a group > > to help the disabled by setting up Debian systems, but again, that's > > all it could do. Which is nice and all, but not really very exciting. > What about organizations that have a large set of vague goals like > SPI?[1] It seems to me like we could do a whole hell of a lot with in > those guidelines. Again, AIUI, the organisations goals have to directly align with the particular charitable purposes set out. If you do other things you're not a charity, whether you do the charitable things or not. (While I'm certainly no expert on this, I have talked to an accountant about it) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Australian DMCA (the Digital Agenda Amendments) Under Review! -- http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/copyright/digitalagenda
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