As many of you know freedesktop.org is a collaboration zone for open software projects working on interoperability and shared technology for X Window System desktops. Among others, freedesktop.org provides hosting for X.org, Mesa GL, DBUS, HAL, Portland and a large number of other software components and desktop related specifications. Logistically freedesktop.org is able to provide this service thanks to donations of bandwidth and hardware from various sponsors, including Google, HP and Portland State University. Unfortunately the legal structure to handle these donations is not the best at the moment. To improve this situation Software in the Public Interest (SPI) has been contacted. SPI has been so kind to offer freedesktop.org to become a SPI Associated Project. This will give freedesktop.org all the benefits of a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a minimum of administrative overhead.
It is our intention to accept SPI's offer and effectuate this change within the next few weeks. Apart from the legal implications this is not expected to result in any changes to the operation of freedesktop.org. Havoc Pennington, Keith Packard, Waldo Bastian _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg