+ Tax Agreements that apply to **Charities like NLnet**, and give
+ your **Accountant** the following information:
+ <https://nlnet.nl/foundation/ANBI.html> as well as a Reference
+ to the tax rules that apply to **Charities** of the type that NLnet
+ is registered as:
+ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algemeen_nut_beogende_instelling>.
+ Your **Accountant** can check and also explain to you the following
+ rules for philanthropy in Europe:
+ <https://www.philanthropyadvocacy.eu/legal-environment-for-philanthropy-in-europe/>.
+ If your **Accountant** does not understand them, have them contact
+ Bob Goudriaan directly. Bob Goudriaan, who is a Chartered Accountant
+ specialising in International Tax Law, can explain it to your
+ **Accountant**, your Accountant can explain it to you.
+ Did we emphasise enough, yet, that this is something that is
+ within the domain expertise of an **Accountant**, not a **Lawyer**?
+* Q: I wanted to ask about "Works for the Public Good". What does that mean,
+ in practical terms?
+ - A: It means that our (your) work - must be made available under Libre
+ Licenses. In this project's case we chose the LGPLv3+.
+* Q: Do I retain copyright?
+ - A: Yes you do however we do ask that you make a "dual-assignment" so
+ that we can enter into (non-exclusive, non-transferrable) re-licensing
+ agreements to large Corporations that do not like the LGPLv3+.
+ Given that you would receive a percentage of a substantial amount
+ of money (which will be a donation by that Corporation) there is
+ a financial incentive there (licensing deals for GPUs start around
+ USD 250,000 for the low-end ones and go up from there).
+* Q: What's this about transparency?
+ - A: We are funded under NLnet's Privacy and Enhanced Trust Programme
+ <https://nlnet.nl/PET>. The mandate is so that people to be able to
+ trust what we are doing, and for independent audits to be able to
+ take place. Therefore, development discussion needs to be under
+ resources within our control to record (i.e. not github). Even the
+ IRC channel is logged.
+* Q: So I have to record *everything*?
+ - A: No, just make sure to use the bugtracker, mailing lists, IRC channel
+ gitolite3 and FTP server for general day-to-day *development*. Not
+ your "personal conversations" or (if a Professor for example) your
+ Lectures which happen to mention LibreSOC.
+* Q: That sounds nerve-wracking!
+ - A: This is just how Libre software development is done: entirely publicly!
+ There is nothing new here in 30+ years of Libre software development,
+ it's just that it's a condition of involvement rather than optional.
+ [sotto voice: and to be honest the traffic volume is so high and it's
+ of such specialist interest that nobody's going to be looking who isn't
+ genuinely interested :) ]
+ An additional very important reason: we need proof of prior art,
+ in case some idiotic patent troll tries to patent ideas they happen
+ to get a glimpse of. By keeping the full and complete discussion
+ on recorded **timestamped** archives such efforts may be invalidated.