If GNOME itself could accept these copyrights, that would be ideal in
my opinion. GNOME board members, I assume you are on this list - would
you be willing to consider this at the next board meeting?
adam
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:01 PM, Behdad Esfahbod
<behdad.esfah...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Adam,
Thanks for Yorba.
It occurs to me that while GNOME Foundation does not currently own
any copyright, there is no reason why it can't accept a donation such
as this.
behdad
On Mar 24, 2016 6:41 PM, "Adam Dingle" <a...@medovina.org> wrote:
I think an existing free software organization feels like the best
home for these copyrights. The organizations that others have
mentioned here are great leads - I will be in touch with some of
them soon. If none of those pan out, I may repost asking if any
individual people would be interested. thanks -
adam
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Daniel Espinosa <eso...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Should be an organization or individuals can step up too?
El mar. 24, 2016 3:14 PM, "Josh Triplett" <j...@joshtriplett.org>
escribió:
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 04:55:49PM -0400, Adam Dingle wrote:
> 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 -
You might consider the Free Software Foundation (FSF), Software in
the Public
Interest (SPI), or the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC).
- Josh Triplett
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