Law center to ease corporate path for FOSS developers
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) is due to announce the formation of the Software Freedom Conservancy Monday. The conservancy aims to make it easier for developers of free and open-source software (FOSS) projects around the world to become tax-exempt corporate entities.
The SFLC's mission is to protect and advance FOSS projects by providing pro-bono legal services. From day one, the law center has helped a number of developers separately achieve corporate status, according to Dan Ravicher, SFLC's legal director.
Setting up corporations involves a number of repeatable steps including establishing a board of directors and holding annual meetings. The center realized it could "harmonize that work" by establishing a single entity, Ravicher said in an interview. The conservancy will act as a fiscal sponsor for a number of FOSS projects from different developers and provide them with legal, financial and administrative services free of charge.
The first three projects to join the conservancy are SurveyOS, BusyBox and uClibc, according to Ravicher.
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