Re: Transferring privoxy.org to SPI

> If there are no objections

I have no objections.
Lee



On 10/17/11, Fabian Keil <[email protected]> wrote:
> One of the reasons for the Privoxy project to become an associated
> project of Software in the Public Interest, Inc (SPI) was to be able
> to collect donations and have a legal entity to pay for privoxy.org.
>
> The domain was and still is owned and generously payed for by
> Andreas (BCC'd) who was always open to transferring it to one
> of us.
>
> After a recent reminder by Andreas, I've been in contact with
> SPI's board of directors to figure out the best way to pay for
> the domain.
>
> The recommendation I got was to transfer the domain over to
> SPI, which is what other associated projects like the Debian
> project have done as well.
>
> The good news is that SPI has partnered with a domain registrar
> which would cover the costs (so they wouldn't cut into the
> donations). SPI could also provide the DNS service for us.
>
> Unfortunately this currently isn't documented on the website,
> or we might have done the transfer years ago and already spent
> the donations on things that actually help to improve Privoxy
> itself, instead of saving them to eventually be able to cover
> the costs of the domain.
>
> The downside is that the domain would count as an asset and
> for legal reasons SPI wouldn't be able to transfer it back
> to an individual project member or to another organization
> that isn't a 501(c)3 US non-profit:
> http://www.spi-inc.org/drafts/associated-project-howto/
>
> I think we can live with that but wanted to mention it anyway.
>
> If there are no objections, I intend to request the transfer
> at the end of the month.
>
> Any questions or concerns?
>
> Fabian
>

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