On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 04:55:49PM -0400, Adam Dingle wrote: > As some of you know, I founded Yorba, a free software non-profit based in > San Francisco that was active from 2009-2015 and developed a few popular > programs for GNOME including the Shotwell photo manager and the Geary email > client, both of which now live in GNOME git. These programs are copyrighted > by Yorba and a few external contributors and are licensed under the LGPL. > > Yorba has run out of funding and is winding down - in fact nobody has worked > there since around April 2015. We now need to shut down the foundation > (which is a California non-profit corporation), but legally we can't do so > while it still holds any assets including the copyrights on its software, > which are considered intellectual property. > > We'd love to find some other free software organization that we can pass our > copyrights on to. We would sell them for a nominal fee. In theory the > copyright recipient could defend the LGPL licensing of these programs if > necessary (though I think the likelihood of such a necessity is low). > > My understanding is that GNOME itself does not hold copyrights. Is anyone > aware of any other free software organization that might be willing and able > to receive our copyrights? Thanks -
You might consider the Free Software Foundation (FSF), Software in the Public Interest (SPI), or the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). - Josh Triplett _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
