Should be an organization or individuals can step up too? El mar. 24, 2016 3:14 PM, "Josh Triplett" <j...@joshtriplett.org> escribió:
> 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 >
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