Re: ASL/SPI partnership

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: spi-general(at)lists(dot)spi-inc(dot)org
Cc: faw(at)debian(dot)org, Ian Jackson <ijackson(at)chiark(dot)greenend(dot)org(dot)uk>
Subject: Re: ASL/SPI partnership
Date: 2007-01-30 17:06:18
Message-ID: 200701300906.18998.josh@agliodbs.com
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Jimmy,

> Even businesses which are not legal entities, like sole proprietorships
> and presumably unincorporated nonprofit associations such as Debian,
> should still do some form of accounting to keep track of the finances. I
> agree ASL should also record on its books money that it holds in trust
> for Debian, but there's no way Debian as a whole can get a proper
> picture of its income/loss, balance sheet, cash flow, and net worth
> across all its affiliated legal entities unless Debian keeps a set of
> books for itself. Isn't there even someone delegated by the DPL as an
> accountant for this purpose?

Surely you know better ;-)

Anyway, there may actually be legal consequences to Debian keeping "books"; we
should check with Greg.

--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco

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