Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany
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Re: Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany
#2I agree with the goal but unless you create the petition using the official Bundestag website, this is about as useful as a thumbs up on Facebook.
If you make a petition with the official website and it passes they have to deal with it, even if its a rejection.
Re: Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany
#3What does it mean for volunteering to be "recognized" in Germany?
Re: Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany
#4What does it mean for volunteering to be "recognized" in Germany?
Tax exempts (I'm not a German, but I was curious about the same and this is what ChatGPT told me :) )
Re: Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany
#5What does it mean for volunteering to be "recognized" in Germany?
Certain reimbursements/allowances for volunteering are treated favorably for tax purposes if conditions are met, e.g. ehrenamtspauschale (volunteer allowance).
Also, as Gemeinnützig, for tax and for issuing donation receipts.
It could also function as community service hours ordered by a court (sozialstunden).
Stuff like that.
Re: Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany
#6> Compensations could be paid tax-exempt
I think this is the real killer feature here. Software companies could save money by simply open-sourcing parts of their software.
Re: Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany
#7You can already start a non profit in almost every country. If you're serious and at it for a while and have some structure.
On an individual basis I don't think giving tax breaks to anyone with a chatGPT tab open makes sense.
Re: Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany
#8I very much hope this doesn't descend into licence wars but I would think all of the BSD, MIT, ISC, hold-harmless, RAND and GNU licences qualified. If that's true and it was understood the public/commons got an outcome, I'd be in favour.
If the code is under restrictive clauses, or gets tokenistic input and the quotient of time and money is spent doing something else, then I think this is a licence to cheapen out contracting rates for-profit.
How does an auditor know?
Re: Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany
#9I agree with the goal but unless you create the petition using the official Bundestag website, this is about as useful as a thumbs up on Facebook. If you make a petition with the official website and it passes they have to deal with it, even if its a rejection. https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/epet/peteinreichen.html
Furthermore, this petition should be written in German as well...
Re: Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany
#10> Compensations could be paid tax-exempt I think this is the real killer feature here. Software companies could save money by simply open-sourcing parts of their software.
Interesting.
Similarly R&D tax incentives could be made to only apply if the R&D is publically available (for study, and any use)