[Noisebridge-discuss] Noisebridge Lending Library?

[Jon]

I think this is overcomplicating the issue totally.

-jon

On Feb 7, 2010, at 1:16 AM, Sai Emrys wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Will Sargent <will.sargent at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>   People who donate things to noisebridge do so with
>>> some sense of mission, and donors are part of the
>>> noisebridge community whether or not they are members.
>>> it is not excellent to disregard the intentions of
>>> donors: at least we should understand the intent of the
>>> donation before co-opting stuff for personal purposes.
>> 
>> Not quite sure I understand this; is there a license attached to donations?
> 
> No. However, there is a sort of flag attached to any resource that
> goes into a nonprofit. Once something is donated to a nonprofit, it
> may not unduly profit any non-profit.
> 
> In this context, what that means is that books donated to NB cannot be
> just given to individuals, because then the individuals (who are not
> nonprofits) would be profiting from it. They can be *sold* at fair
> market value, though.
> 
> There is an arguable exception, which is that charities are allowed to
> just give stuff to the group of people that they service. But there're
> complications there - demonstrating need, showing that you're not just
> using it to funnel money to your friends, well-defining the target
> group, etc. Probably not an area NB wants to touch, more because it's
> a PITA than because it's not possible.
> 
> tl;dr: It's a tax thing.
> 
> 
> On-topic: FWIW, I've borrowed some of the books on the shelf for a
> week or two at a time, but always returned them. I think that this is
> reasonable use, since one can't really read them while in the space
> (it's distracting and there isn't enough time). I also think it would
> be not-nice to just take it, and that accidentally taking it and
> forgetting to return it is a risk. I don't know how to
> mitigate/balance these though.
> 
> - Sai
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