Re: Yorba Foundation looking to pass on copyrights
If GNOME itself could accept these copyrights, that would be ideal in my opinion. GNOME board members, I assume you are on this list - would you be willing to consider this at the next board meeting? adam On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:01 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad.esfah...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Adam, Thanks for Yorba. It occurs to me that while GNOME Foundation does not currently own any copyright, there is no reason why it can't accept a donation such as this. behdad On Mar 24, 2016 6:41 PM, "Adam Dingle" <a...@medovina.org> wrote: I think an existing free software organization feels like the best home for these copyrights. The organizations that others have mentioned here are great leads - I will be in touch with some of them soon. If none of those pan out, I may repost asking if any individual people would be interested. thanks - adam On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Daniel Espinosa <eso...@gmail.com> wrote: 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 ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Yorba Foundation looking to pass on copyrights
I think an existing free software organization feels like the best home for these copyrights. The organizations that others have mentioned here are great leads - I will be in touch with some of them soon. If none of those pan out, I may repost asking if any individual people would be interested. thanks - adam On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Daniel Espinosa <eso...@gmail.com> wrote: 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 ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Yorba Foundation looking to pass on copyrights
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 - adam ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
