Re: New Canadian nonprofit for trademark, postgresql.org domain, etc.
Jean-Paul Argudo <jean-paul@postgresqlfr.org>
From: Jean-Paul Argudo <jean-paul@postgresqlfr.org>
To: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-05-08T09:07:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi there, Le 07/05/2011 02:55, Alvaro Herrera a écrit : > Excerpts from Josh Berkus's message of vie may 06 15:41:02 -0300 2011: > >> We have, however, come up with a potential plan to change this. Marc >> has agreed to transfer the community assets to a new Canadian nonprofit >> which we set up for the purpose. The PostgreSQL Core Team supports this >> solution, and as such I've been talking to Canadian attorneys about >> setting up the NPO (we need an entity in Canada because of the >> trademark). The Funds Group has approved spending SPI money to pay for >> legal and operational fees for the corporation. > > Excellent news. +1 I did the same with postgresqlfr.org domain some years ago. When PostgreSQLFr non-profit was stable enough, I transfered anything to it. And that's really better to have such things owned by a group than a single person, for all the reasons Josh described. So, thanks a lot to all of you for handling this that way. Cheers, -- Jean-Paul Argudo