Closed Bug 70249 Opened 24 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Mozilla.org should become a non-profit Organization.

Categories

(mozilla.org :: Miscellaneous, task)

Product:
mozilla.org
Component:
Miscellaneous
Type:
task
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: jelwell, Assigned: mitchell)

References

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Details

Mozilla.org is always spouting how they're different from Netscape. That's kind
of hard to believe since Netscape owns the Mozilla trademark, and Netscape owns
the mozilla.org website. Mozilla.org should become a non-profit organization
owned by no one but themselves.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → LATER

mozilla.org makes decisions for the benefits of the community, not for the
benefit of any particular contributor, whether Netscape or otherwise.  This is
different from how the Netscape client groups makes decisions.  

Becoming a viable non profit is easy to say, harder to do.   
This issue may be forced sooner than one thinks.
The .org registry may become a place for only the registered non-profit
organizations. That would mean Mozilla.org would have to forfit it's domain. The
current timeline is for 31 December 2002.
URL: http://www.icann.org/melbourne/propos...
At least it's not December of this year!

mitchell
LATER is deprecatd, moving to Future milestone
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: LATER → ---
Target Milestone: --- → Future
*** Bug 112583 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Blocks: 111392
Please see the Mozilla Donations Page bug 111392 as something that would be
possible if Mozilla became a non-profit organization.
There's still no progress on this, is there? Considering comment #2, we have
less than half a year if the timeline mentioned is still on track. I for one
would love to see a Mozilla Organization independant from AOLTW, and considering
bug 111392...
What's this about .org becoming reserved for non-profit organizations only? Am I
going to have to give up my .org domains? I doubt that.

I am not a lawyer. Do not take this as legal advice. Considering that Mozilla
could soon face a lawsuit filed by Toho, the holder of the Godzilla copyright,
we should be thankful that AOL-TW's big legal guns will be there to protect the
Mozilla Project. I am not a lawyer. Do not take this as legal advice.
Blocks: 76609
Target Milestone: Future → ---
Hopefully, bug 76609 will now get fixed too ;-)
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago → 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Yay! I'll refrain from reopening this bug (since technically the non-profit status has not been 
granted yet). I'll mark this as verified when that happens.
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