On 31 août 2012, at 17:11, Nate Aune wrote: > >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
I would second this for the exact same reason. Decoupling Legal troubles from a 'natural person' to a 'legal person' is a sound way of handling potential infringement/... issues/complaints, especially regarding something as complex as Copyright/Trademark laws (on which not two countries agree upon). --
