Sidebar on the CRA, which was mentioned

Posted Oct 6, 2025 23:14 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Sidebar on the CRA, which was mentioned by pizza
Parent article: F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree

> WTF do the "Cardinal Principles of Free Software" have to do with the legal definition of commercial activity in your (or any other) jurisdiction?

If two things have no causal connection, they should not affect each other in any way. Be it Free Software (as required by DSG), or business activity. Certainly in the UK, one major point of subsidiaries in business is show the absence of causal connection between them.

> (BTW, in my jurisdiction, the threshold for "commercial activity" is _very_ low indeed)

How low? Kids collecting stamps and swapping them in the playground? I'd define it as "an activity that requires keeping records in pursuit of being sustainable". I didn't use the word "profit", because we have the concept of non-profits, but they have to avoid losing money in order to survive.

Cheers,
Wol

Sidebar on the CRA, which was mentioned

Posted Oct 6, 2025 23:39 UTC (Mon) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> I'd define it as "an activity that requires keeping records in pursuit of being sustainable"

How *you* define it doesn't matter one scintilla. What matters is what the IRS or HRMC (or the equivalent for your jurisdiction) says it is.