@Jain I mean its not impossible but quite hard and depends a lot on phrasing.
“Our organisation wants to support the development of a alternative to SAP databases free of corresponding software patents" -> ruled by a judge to not be non-profit because it excludes the group of ppl wanting/profiting (legaly from) software patents
The german KDE non-profit is doing fine for decades now. I suspect the issue with mastodon lies in some of these little details.