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% Community feedback on whether to offer libreboot.org domain name to SFC % Leah Rowe % 27 Apr 2017
I, Leah Rowe, have stepped down as leader of the Libreboot project. This means that I must also transfer ownership of the libreboot.org domain name to another entity. I have chosen to propose the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) as that entity.
Commenting will be taken on https://www.reddit.com/r/libreboot/comments/67x3bs/proposal_transfer_librebootorg_domain_name/ as to whether this decision should be taken. Full reasoning is documented there.
Software Freedom Conservancy is heavily affiliated with the FSF. Conservancy provides legal services, e.g. GPL enforcement, for those who violate the GNU General Public License. They generally offer legal services related to Free Software. Its founder, Bradley Kuhn, is also a former Executive Director of the FSF. (Karen Sandler, is SFC's current Executive Director).
In addition to legal services, Conservancy also helps promote Free Software and provides certain infrastructure for Free Software projects, and does sometimes assist in development of projects.
More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Conservancy
Conservancy website: https://sfconservancy.org/
This is something that could be offered to GNU as part of Libreboot's filed application to re-join GNU.
Previously, it was proposed that the domain name be transferred to the FSF, but this was vetoed by an opposing member of the core leadership, when I proposed it. SFC was then recommended as an alternative, hence this new proposal.