Codec Buddy misleading.

[Rahul Sundaram]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram <sundaram <at> fedoraproject.org> writes:
>>  From the legal perspective that is pretty much irrelevant since Red Hat 
>> is the legal entity that takes on liability for the Fedora Project but
> 
> A wacky idea, and I'm sure there are lots of reasons it is a bad idea, still 
> it's something I've been wondering about ever since the whole "Fedora 
> Foundation" talk: Why not create a Fedora foundation in a EU country? That 
> might help solve this issue. And wasn't the main problem with the idea of a 
> Fedora Foundation US tax laws? Maybe one of the EU countries has more 
> advantageous laws?

The administrative overhead in setting up a foundation is pretty high 
and there are lots of limitations including how much a single 
organization can fund a foundation and things like that. One way out 
that I have suggested earlier (and got rejected) is

http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/

It is U.S based but if it is a foundation (by proxy) the liability is 
much less. Moving from U.S to Europe isn't really a good solution if 
there is no guarantee that the political powers in Europe won't make 
things worse with all the constant lobbying going on. Red Hat and others 
are pushing for patent reform in U.S and that IMO is a good thing to be 
involved in. Refer http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CodecBuddy. This is 
linked from the  initial message in codeina.

Rahul