>*Should a non profit foundation be established and all or some control be transferred to it? Should copyrights be >transferred too?* * * I served on the Plone Foundation board for 3 years, and I'm very familiar with the benefits of transferring the copyright/trademark to a non-profit foundation. I can say that it helped with receiving donations/grants and strengthening the community as well as reducing risk. http://plone.org/foundation
We had a lot of support from Eben Moglen, the general counsel for the FSF, and here you can read the conservancy proposal: http://plone.org/foundation/materials/archive/proposals/conservancy/ http://plone.org/foundation/materials/archive/conservancy Nate On Thursday, August 30, 2012 1:23:18 AM UTC-4, Roberto Rosario wrote: > > All that has happened in the past 60 hours or so including the results > have show that Mayan EDMS the code, and Mayan EDMS the project, have broken > through any initial expectations of growth, market penetration, acceptance > or any idea I or anyone else may have had from the day it was started or > the day it was released one and a half years ago. I also think this is an > important pivotal point and the good time to make changes if there is the > need for them to ensure the continued growth and future of the project. > > I value everyone's opinion and take them into account and the people in > this mailing list are the oldest supporters of the project so your opinions > are specially important and helpful during this process as have been since > the beginning of the project itself. > > I would like everyone to chime in if they can on the following topics (or > any other you want to bring out): > > - Should Mayan EDMS be licensed under another Open Source license (BSD, > MIT, Apache, other)? A non Free license? > - Should it remain Free Software or move to a full commercial product. > - Should a new specific license be crafted for it (ie: Mayan EDMS Shared > Source License or something like that) > - Should the development branch remain open, closed, or shared on a case > by case basis? > - Should the release strategy remain the same or should there be > a deferred model of a commercial release and have that same version become > the latest Free Open Source version a period after that (6 month a a year?) > to benefit both commercial and non-commercial users? > Another completely different release strategy? > - Should there continue to be only one version of the Source Code or > should there be a commercial and a community version? > - Should there be a completely different release strategy? > - Is the current release cycle adequate? Or Too slow? Too fast? > - Should a non profit foundation be established and all or some control > be transferred to it? Should copyrights be transferred too? > - Is the software/project transparent enough or too much? > - Is the new licensing plan proposed (GPL, Redistribution, Commercial and > Developer) adequate, too complicated or too limited? > > """ > > - ** GPL ** – You can install *Mayan EDMS* as is, but can sell your > services for *Mayan EDMS*, you must provide the source code or > directions where to get the source code to your clients, modifications to > the source code must be made public. > - ** Redistribution ** - You can sell *Mayan EDMS* as well as your > services, you can modify *Mayan EDMS* adding new features or changing > the name and you can keep your changes closed. > - ** Commercial ** – Same as *GPL* but includes email and telephone > support for a number of hours per month. > - ** Developer ** – Allows you to use *Mayan EDMS* to create a new > product using all or parts of the source code and allows you to sell your > new product independently. > - """ > > Any other topic regarding but not limited to code hosting (github, etc), > the current website hosting, website design or anything else is also most > welcomed. > > Feel free to post or to continue emailing me in private as most have done, > any method is perfectly fine. Thank you very much, > > --Robert > > --
