Re: [lojban] eurolinux proposing lojban for community patent

["Robert J. Chassell" <bob@RATTLESNAKE.COM>]

   Expressing such an opinion, even about a foreign entity,
   might threaten our IRS not-for-profit status, which is not
   extended to lobbying groups.

Is the LLG a 501(c)3 non-profit organization?  I think so.

In the US, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization is permitted to advocate
and lobby for *general* political issues, such as a ban on software
patents, or the use of Lojban as a patent-description language, but
not for a *specific* numbered bill.

I don't know the regulations concerning a numbered bill in a non-US
legislature.

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    Robert J. Chassell                  bob@rattlesnake.com
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