Oy veh!
Legal advice followed by a disclaimer of not being a lawyer and it not being legal advice.
Why bother when all it does is spread FUD - Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
Outside the realm of politics there are no legal requirements for ACCEPTING donations. The legal requirements applicable to a business like Groups.io involve how they are accounted for once received... and that is, quite frankly, none of our business. All you accomplish with legal opinions followed by a disclaimer saying you aren't a lawyer is to spread FUD - fear, uncertainty and doubt.
Why would it not be legally possible to accept doanations nation-wide? They aren't taxable by the states the donors live in like payments for goods or services rendered are, so state boundaries aren't a consideration. So where's the problem?
Internationally? Who cares what the regulations in Whatchamacallitstan? They apply to the donor, not to the
Received from toki at 9/28/2018 07:59 PM UTC:
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On 2018-09-28 12:54 a.m., Jim Higgins wrote:
I'd much rather see a straightforward donation via PayPal link vs
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It would be trivial to implement.
Implementing the code is trivial.
Complying with the legal requirements to accept donations is fairly
complex. As a for-profit, I doubt that it would be legally possible to
accept donations nation-wide, let alone internationally.
I am not a lawyer.
This is not legal advice.
jonathon
