Re: charity disappointmnet (was Re: [Fsfe-uk] What the treasurer did... (early Feb 2003))

[Jason Clifford]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Ramanan Selvaratnam wrote:

> > Charity law specifically excludes any organisation which has a political
> > goal as one of it's main aims. That means that if one of your aims is to
> > get the law changed you wont be able to register as a charity.
> 
> Is AFFS trying to change any existing laws?
> 
> I thought  the software patents issue is still under consideration by the 
> lawmakers.

You don't need to be campaigning to change existing laws - just to have 
political campaigning as a significant objective which AFFS does.

As I said before the amounts of money involved are not enough to make 
this a significant issue yet in my view and when it does become a bigger 
issue the solution could be as simple as hiving the political elements off 
to another org so as to remove the problem.

Jason Clifford
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