Hello Christian!
In our case the Conservancy is the Software Freedom Conservancy
http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/.
Since it is many many years since we have been in contact with the Regents
of the University of California and the only reason for having them as a
copyright holder is because it was so initially, I have assumed that they
don't care that much about ArgoUML. We would like to have the copyright
holder a little closer to the actual work than that and someone that will
speak on our behalf if needed.
If we would like to change copyright in the future or license using another
copyright for a specific purpose, you have to convince the Copyright holder
of this. If the copyright holder is hard to reach or if it is impossible to
make sure that noone is excluded it becomes difficult.
/Linus
2009/3/23 Christian Heinrich <[email protected]>
> Hello all,
> > Hello all!
> >
> > There is one problem with the license change that I have not been able
> > to solve and that is the question about the Copyright holder. I would
> > like the Copyright holder to be some kind of organization and I'd
> > prefer if the Conservancy would take care of this for us, especially
> > since it might involve some legal discussions when changing the
> > Copyright holder from the Regency of University of California. Alas,
> > the Conservancy cannot do so at the moment and they don't expect this
> > to be solved for several months.
> "Conservancy" = University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy? (Just googled)
>
> Why do we want to change the Copyright holder at all?
> >
> > We have the following alternatives:
> >
> > * Create an ArgoUML foundation or an organization or company,
> > without help of the Conservancy.
> >
> Really isn't my favorite. This would bring up further discussions about
> the location of the foundation, the director of the foundation, ... .
> Additionally, I suspect that there is additonal administration overhead
> that also might have something to do with taxes etc. (At least an
> official invitation to a yearly members meeting to vote for the
> administration and stuff)
>
> I really think this isn't what we ought to do - we can't afford to
> sacrifice manpower for unneccessary administration overhead.
> >
> > * Set the Copyright holder to something less formal such as
> > "ArgoUML project", "contributors to the ArgoUML project",
> > "contributor to this file".
> >
> Where would be the advantages of a "formal" organization? (Well, they
> might represent our rights at courts and stuff... Are there more
> advantages?)
> >
> > * Defer the license change even further to get help from the
> > Conservancy.
> >
> > Unless someone has a good knowledge on how to set up a foundation, I
> > prefer to wait for the Conservancy to help us in this.
> Since I haven't got a well overlook on this topic, I can't say what I'd
> prefer at the moment, but if in doubt, I'd say we defer the licence change.
>
> Best regards
> Christian
>
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