Those teams also relinquish the right to funds distributed to non-taxpaying teams.

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Once the filters have been shown to be successful on the ground and a commercial partner is found, Tongesayi says that they will first be distributed through non-profit organizations and NGOs.

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Wilson says he founded Defense Distributed as a non-profit and posted the documents in the public domain.

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During the term, the tax laws require that funds be distributed to a non-charitable beneficiary (typically, a family member).

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He says Defense Distributed is excluded from the ITAR regulations under an exemption for non-profit public domain releases of technical files designed to create a safe harbor for research and other public interest activities.

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