[ Thanks to Timothy R. Butler for this
link. ]
“In one of the biggest stories in the last few weeks, Linux and
Main reported Friday that the KDE League–KDE’s promotional (and
press release issuing) organization–had ceased to exist. According
to the report at the time, that publication’s Dennis Powell said
the situation consisted of missed payments on a franchise fee, but
also suggested that the KDE League might be failing to release
information as required by the Internal Revenue Service. Now, with
new information obtained by Open for Business, it seems these
concerns can be laid to rest.“The issues expressed in the article mentioned above, and
another one published on Monday, break down their concerns into
four points. These were the dissolution, web site outage,
tax-exempt status, and secrecy of financial records. While not all
of these concerns were directly related to the original article’s
coverage, all of them have had some light shed on them in the past
few days.“As the second Linux and Main article noted, the first issue
resolved itself when the Delaware Secretary of State’s office
realized that the dissolution was an error on their part.
Apparently much of the problem arose from the Secretary of State’s
office assessing late fees that do not apply to not-for-profit
organizations such as the League. With the resolution made, the
organization’s status has been resolved retroactively, and as
League chairman Andreas Pour mentioned, ‘It actually doesn’t affect
much [anyway]…'”