[Members] Re: XSF EU Legal Structure - Help us define evaluation criteria

On Thu, 21 May 2026 at 18:11, Guus der Kinderen <guus.der.kinderen(a)gmail.com> wrote: Very specifically on these, I think it would be useful to classify the IPR and related assets that the existing XSF has. My non-exhaustive guesswork gives me: * Copyright ownership of the XEPs * Copyright ownership of the website and other assets * Trademark licences (I think the XSF has a trademark licence for Jabber, though I can't find it) * Trademark sublicensor: https://xmpp.org/about/xsf/jabber-trademark/ Of these, I think Copyright can be transferred in the XEPs in the same way it's been transferred into the XSF; that is by the New XSF promising to make the specifications available to developers etc. That would form a consideration in a contract, and I believe that's sufficient to easily reassign the copyright. The copyright on the website is both harder and also less important; we might choose to licence rather than reassign. The current website seems to have no copyright imprimatur on it, and the repository has no licence. Might be worth doing something about both...? It's harder because there's no obvious consideration to use here - we couldn't have the New XSF promise to publish the website (that would be weird). It's less important because a licence will work just as well for our purposes, and licences are legally simpler. The trademark issues I don't know anything about; it's not an area of law I've ever had to tangle with. I wonder if the simplest solution would be to keep the Old XSF as a stub organisation holding just the trademark bits until we figure that out? Dave.