So, how do we start a Koha Foundation? Is it simply filling out
Some well known free applications (Firefox, Thunderbird, Apache, Gnome) have their own foundations (Mozilla, Gnome and Apache Foundation) These organizations can be taken as an example to the Koha Foundation. Zeki Celikbas Istanbul Technical University Alinti Lenora Oftedahl <OFTL@critfc.org>
So, how do we start a Koha Foundation? Is it simply filling out paperwork and registering as a non-profit? I'll be happy to start looking into this and talking with a lawyer I know who might be willing to give free advice.
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Rachel Hamilton-Williams <rachel@katipo.co.nz> 5/10/2009 4:24 PM >>>
Joann Ransom wrote:
Can someone please help me understand what this statement at the bottom of the new Koha website means for the Koha community:
"The Koha -- Open Source Library System is © 1999-2009 by LibLime & the Koha Development Team
Koha^® and the Koha logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of LibLime <http://new.koha.org/liblime.com> and BibLibre <http://biblibre.com> in the United States, France and other countries. Distributed under the GNU GPL license <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/>." It means just what it says. I believe that individual contributors retain copyright of their particular "bits" of the work that go into "koha", which is who the "koha development team" are. Listing them all would be a bit cumbersome, and I think Liblime are the majority copyright holder at the moment. It's a little bit of a hangover from when Katipo ran the site - we had a similar statement. We haven't had a
"body" to assign our copyrights too, so they are still owned by the people who wrote them.
Various important names and trademarks have bee registered by some companies usually in their local jurisdictions to make sure they are held by someone within the Koha community.
Both Liblime & BibLibre have said they'll assign those assets to a koha foundation when one eventuates, but of course we have to have a legal body who can "hold" them before they can be assigned.
Cheers Rachel
Thanks,
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