[Spi-private] Re: money handling

Bruce Perens bruce at perens.com
Mon Jul 17 16:32:43 UTC 2006


Josh Berkus wrote:
> In theory, yes.   In practice, that would amount only to witholding
> funds which were requested for something not allowed to 501(c)3s.  I
> personally can't imagine the PostgreSQL project requesting anything
> that wasn't "software in the public interest" related. 
The relationship between the non-profit project and the commercial
companies involved in it can be problematical. You can't carry out
activities using non-profit funds whose main purpose is to facilitate
their business.

    Thanks

    Bruce



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