Dissolving the GnuPG e.V.

[Phil Pennock]

On 2023-05-15 at 12:41 +0200, Andre Heinecke wrote:
> I am proposing to dissolve the GnuPG e.V.:
[...]
> So in conclusion I would suggest closing the Verein down and find a worthy heir 
> to the funds of our donors. Which is still ~130k€
> 
> I believe that the KDE e.V. [2] Should be this heir. With KMail, Kmymoney, 
> KWallet and now Okular they provide easy to use and accessible frontends for 
> GnuPG. That is even before mentioning Kleopatra which is our main User 
> Interface.
> 
> I believe their goals align with ours, KDE e.V. is in my opinion a healthy, 
> professionally managed Verein and could put our donors money to good use 
> without being wasteful. Also that it is a charitable German Verein helps 
> legally.
> KDE software is privacy focused and with some apps in the Windows Store and 
> all others available through WSL we would not even alienate our donors that 
> use windows exclusively.
> 
> Additionally I would propose a donation of 15.000 Euro to the Free Software 
> Friends in Düsseldorf [3] for their help in establishing our Verein, probable 
> legal help in dissolving it and in general to continue to promote our work 
> publicly. We also verbally agreed to pay our part of the rent for the shared 
> office, so this should be covered by that.
> 
> Before moving on to the next steps I just wanted to put this suggestion out 
> there and ask for opinions.

All sounds reasonable to me.
No objections here.

-Phil
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