Re: Transferring privoxy.org to SPI

David Schmidt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.privoxy.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Me neither; it seems to be in line with the original project's aims.

- David

On 10/17/2011 9:02 PM, Lee wrote:
>> 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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