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 > >
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