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 -
adam
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