Sounds like the local laws were at fault, which begs the question; why accept money in the first place if you don't have a legal entity in place to use it prope

Sounds like the local laws were at fault, which begs the question; why accept money in the first place if you don't have a legal entity in place to use it properly? Set up an LLC in the USA with that cash, or at least a non-profit that can accept donations (and therefore, make them tax-deductable so that more people will be encouraged to donate, instead of less, since um, googling the OSS project in question will now point to Atwood's post, which wouldn't convince me to give them any money at all).