Am Samstag, 8. April 2006 13:10 schrieb Nils Larsch: > a technical question: who can decide if opensc should become > a legal entity ? Over the time a lot of people have contributed > code to opensc and it's not really practical to ask everyone > who has been involved in this project ...
this is not about copyright assignement, everyone keeps his copyright, no changes in that area. i'm currently finding out what will be necessary to join conservancy. once I know, I will post more information here. but my guess is this: if we can join them and then accept donations via them, they will ask us: who can decide on what to do with the money? so who is allowed to take donations in the name of "opensc" / spend that money on behalf of "opensc"? I guess we as group of active developers can together decide on that issues. maybe conservancy will need some more formal statement than that like a list of people or whatever, we will see. conservancy is not about copyright assignement, so that won't change. neither they interfere with development, so decissions like "who can commit changes" or "when to release a new version" or "who is allowed to release a new version of opensc" are our decissions and we already need to somehow decide on these issues as group. the only one I want to change I'm thinking about is to reassign the ownership of our domain to them, and donate money to them, and then have them pay the server and domain bills, so from a legal point of view opensc is part of conservancy and if we ever run into trouble with someone, I'm not in the direct line of fire. no idea what will be necessary for us to join them. if it is too much hassle, we don't need to. but I still think the opportunity sounds nice and is worth exploring. Regards, Andreas _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
