Re: [gentoo-nfp] joining the Software Freedom Conservancy (was: Nominations open for the 2007/08 Trustees)

[Marius Mauch]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:08:23 -0500
Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o> wrote:

> Ned Ludd wrote: [Mon Jul 16 2007, 04:00:44PM CDT]
> > Anyway point I'm trying to make here is that I think we might be
> > better off using a 3rd party as our foundation. IE people who have
> > the experience/motivation and time to focus on such things
> > that a foundation should be.
> >
> > Anyway. I'd like to nominate nobody in-house.
>
> Yeah, I tend to agree.  Not-so-coincidentally, Gentoo's been invited
> to join the Software Freedom Conservancy, which would provide just
> the sort of 3rd-party management that you're suggesting.  I put a
> write-up on my blog detailing what we know so far:
>
>     http://www.grantgoodyear.org/g2blog/gentoo/20070717-sflc.html

While I think this would be an excellent move, there are a few topics
that concern me a bit:
1) just to be sure, did someone check the transfer agreement between the
Foundation and the old Gentoo, Inc for potential problems?
2) what would this mean for our copyright situation? In detail:
a) who would (legally) own the copyright?
b) what would (in theory) be involved if we'd want to enforce/change
the license?
c) if the copyright were owned by the Conservancy, would we have to
change our copyright headers (in existing and/or new files)?
3) the time it takes to process a funding request worries me a little
bit as well, but then I've never had to deal with that so I'll trust
people who have more experience with that.

2c) is the thing that concernes me the most, changing all of our
copyright notices would be a huge pain.

Btw, you should probably make a new topic for that so people actually
notice it.

Marius
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