5 comments

  • mschild 1 hour ago
    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

    • tsak 4 minutes ago
      [delayed]
  • ggm 12 minutes ago
    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?

  • thaumasiotes 41 minutes ago
    What does it mean for volunteering to be "recognized" in Germany?
    • guessmyname 25 minutes ago
      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.

    • kkarpkkarp 27 minutes ago
      Tax exempts (I'm not a German, but I was curious about the same and this is what ChatGPT told me :) )
  • vasco 13 minutes ago
    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.

  • phendrenad2 15 minutes ago
    > 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.

    • andyferris 0 minutes ago
      Interesting.

      Similarly R&D tax incentives could be made to only apply if the R&D is publically available (for study, and any use)