I 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.
What work would count as valid open source work though? I assume projects that people use are obvious. But what about ones where you're just throwing up your own projects where they start out with no users or impact? Even though its open source, does it need strategic importance from the get-go? Who decides?
In addition to tax stuff there's a card you can get in most states, issued by cities/districts based on certain criteria, like doing a certain amount of hours per week of volunteer work, that will give you a discount or free entry to museums, pools, movie theaters, events.. There's listings online of all the institutions and businesses that give a discount.
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).
I 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...
https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/anerkennung-von-...
I think they just used the English link for the convenience of the HN audience as a whole. Otherwise it'd not be likely to get much discussion.
Like this?
https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/anerkennung-von-...
I 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?
this is such a great initiative but I fear this may get exploited without proper structure.
What work would count as valid open source work though? I assume projects that people use are obvious. But what about ones where you're just throwing up your own projects where they start out with no users or impact? Even though its open source, does it need strategic importance from the get-go? Who decides?
You 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.
What does it mean for volunteering to be "recognized" in Germany?
In addition to tax stuff there's a card you can get in most states, issued by cities/districts based on certain criteria, like doing a certain amount of hours per week of volunteer work, that will give you a discount or free entry to museums, pools, movie theaters, events.. There's listings online of all the institutions and businesses that give a discount.
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.
Tax exempts (I'm not a German, but I was curious about the same and this is what ChatGPT told me :) )
> 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)
It's ok to have a hobby. Not everything needs to be minmaxed to extract the maximum amount of money from the system.