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[Jon Hebb <somebodyrocks AT gmail.com>]

Mike,

I think your quite confused on how a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization works. You should probably go by your local library and see if they have a book on the formation & organization of a 501(c)(3) or just get more acquainted with it online.

501(c)(3) does not "grant the government authority over [an organization's] money."

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Mike <mike AT pikeaero.com> wrote:

I am not sure I understand the question. However, the government has
nothing to do with the GPL. Neither does the 501(c)(3) contract have
anything to do with the GPL.

The 501(c)(3) is about money and authority. It grants the government
authority over the money, and by extension, everything the money touches.

Now you have gotten this software through this foundation which has used
money that is under the authority of the government through the 501(c)(3).

The connection is through the money that funds the project, and the
501(c)(3) contract with the government that over sees the money.

The government cares a rats behind about the GPL and the GPL does not
care about the money.

PS. Sorry, I said I was done talking about this, but now I'm really done. :)

--Mike

On 02/21/2012 11:29 AM, Niels Dettenbach (Syndicat IT&Internet) wrote:
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> Mike <mike AT pikeaero.com> schrieb:
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>> Please explain how it would be possible to be, at the same time,
>> independent from government, and bound by contract to government?
>
> Please explain how a GPL project could be intercepted from any government in a way not wanted by any user?
>
> There are contracts with governmentals and different other parties to integrate and secure functionality / sevices within the software - but this is a completely other part. I assume you understand the GPL?
>
>
> cheers,
>
> Niels.
>

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