[ciphershed] Re: CipherShed non-profit
- From: "Alain Forget" <aforget@xxxxxxx>
- To: <ciphershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 08:37:22 -0400
Oh God! He's already been served a secret warrant!! Damn, the MIB does NOT mess
around.
(I joke, but...perhaps it's not that farfetched of a possibly :-s)
Alain
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Subject: [ciphershed] Re: CipherShed non-profit
Bill: what happened to your signature & warrant canary?
On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 06:13:11 -0400
Bill Cox <waywardgeek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There has been discussion about becoming a non-profit organization.
> Here in the US, legally, we already are:
>
> http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-an-unincorporated-nonprofit-association.html
>
> "But, if the purpose for the association is to benefit the public some
> way, and does not include earning a profit, the association’s members
> have formed an unincorporated nonprofit association. People form
> nonprofit unincorporated associations all the time; often without being
> aware of it. For example, if you and several of your neighbors get
> together to help raise funds to keep your local library branch open,
> you’ve formed an unincorporated nonprofit association."
>
> Basically, whether or not we call ourselves a non-profit, legally that's
> just what we are here in the US. Should we incorporate inorder to
> protect ourselves from personal liability? If that were important, I
> would expect lawyers to do it when they form non-profits. What form of
> non-profit would lawyers choose? Until very recently, the American Bar
> Association was an unincorporated non-profit! Here is a list of some
> unincorporated non-profits in North Carolina:
>
> http://www.secretary.state.nc.us/corporations/nonincprofit.aspx
>
> There is a right time to incorporate. Most people choose to incorporate
> too soon, thinking that they gain some sort of legal protection. The
> protections from incorporating are a lot less than most people think,
> and doing it wrong carries considerable liability on it's own.
>
> Bill
>
--
Niklas
At the time of writing, no warrants have ever been served to me, Niklas
Lemcke, nor am I under any personal legal compulsion concerning the
CipherShed project. I do not know of any searches or seizures of my
assets.
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