Re: Suggestions for an official GNOME hosted document collaboration suite?

[Alex GS <alxgrtnstrngl gmail com>]

there is any legal issue that prevent gnome to introduce a per-user revenue
model, or in other words commercial services over open source solutions?

Do you mean the following:

+ Support services that users can pay to the foundation?

+ Volunteers and foundation members paying a fee for access to infrastructure? 

Just wanted some clarification...

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Karen Sandler <karen gnome org> wrote:

On 2014-02-14 16:39, Florian Müllner wrote:

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:27 PM, alex diavatis
<alexis diavatis gmail com> wrote:
there is any legal issue that prevent gnome to introduce a per-user revenue
model, or in other words commercial services over open source solutions?

Being a non-profit organization[0], I would assume so (but then I am
not a lawyer).

We are a 501(c)(3) organization, but that doesn't mean we can't ever charge for services. Basically it's more of a matter of whether the income is taxed or not, and to make sure that this kind of activity isn't a substantial part of what we do. This is of course an over simplification, but you can read more about the details in the part of the legal primer I wrote when I was at SFLC:

http://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/foss-primer.html#x1-370003.5.3

Of course, no matter what we do it should always be to forward software freedom and GNOME technologies :)
karen

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501%28c%29_organization
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