Re: [Gnustep-marketing] GNUstep Foundation

[MJ Ray]

On 2004-10-02 00:24:29 +0100 Gregory John Casamento 
<address@hidden> wrote:

> > [...] I think English law normally restricts 
> > use of directed donations to non-profit groups, so you can't spend 
> > them on 
> > other things. You can spend general donations on anything. I'd need 
> > to 
> > check to be certain of that, but I'm pretty sure. Does US law have 
> > similar 
> > provisions?
> I'm not sure what provisions you're speaking of. [...]

Does US law prevent spending donations directed to a specific end from 
being spent on general administration?

> > If so, do we just need confirmation that the chief maintainer's 
> > decision is 
> > final?
> Final in what sense?  On the project, yes, Adam's decision is final.

Final in deciding allocation of donated funds to particular uses?

> [...] research SPI which I didn't know
> about until I asked Jeff in #gnustep to see if that's appropriate for 
> our
> needs.

Again, I apologise for overestimating your research. I don't think my 
assumption you'd seen SPI was too outrageous, though, as they are 
pretty open.

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