<div dir="ltr">WTD info is documented here: <a href="http://www.writethedocs.org/about-us/#legal-entity" target="_blank">http://www.writethedocs.org/about-us/#legal-entity</a> -- so, if you're looking for a non-profit organization, we're not one at the moment. It might be in the cards eventually, but it likely doesn't make sense for us currently. <div><br></div><div>We don't do any copyright assignment, so each person owns their own contributions on our site. <br><div><br>Cheers,</div><div>Eric</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 6:54 PM Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Folks,<div>We should consider which legal entity will own the material we create.</div><div>People or a legal entity will own artifacts we create and others can use the artifact under the terms of the license.</div><div><br></div><div>As I understand it, our options are:</div><div>* Every contributor owns their personal contribution. This makes it very difficult to relicense a collective work in future, which has pros and cons.</div><div>* More common is to assign ownership to a trustworthy non-profit foundation, (such as the Apache Foundation, Open Source Foundation, or Open Source Geospatial Foundation).</div><div><br></div><div>I'm in favour of selecting a suitable foundation to assign our copyright to and would like to hear suggestions. I suspect the legal structure behind WriteTheDocs would be good.</div><div><br></div><div>Eric, Jennifer, do you know the legal status of WriteTheDocs? Or are you able to put us in touch with someone who knows?<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-2907387073802540897gmail-m_2661695573331115449gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Cameron Shorter</span><br></div><div>Technology Demystifier</div><div>Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant</div><div><br></div><div>M +61 (0) 419 142 254</div><div><br></div></div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-2907387073802540897gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Co-founder Write the Docs<br></div><a href="http://www.writethedocs.org" target="_blank">http://www.writethedocs.org</a><br></div></div>