Software Freedom Conservancy Welcomes New Members

Published Fri, 2008-02-08 17:16 Software

The Software Freedom Conservancy welcomes as its newest two members, the Bongo and Twisted projects.

By joining the Conservancy, Bongo and Twisted are entitled the benefits of non-profit incorporation. The Conservancy provides administrative and organizational services so that the developers can focus on the software, and still receive the benefits of 501(c)(3) non-profit corporate existence, such as charitable donations.

Founded in March 2006, the Conservancy allows developers of its member FOSS projects to unite under a common organization which provides much-needed administrative services to them. This structure spares each software project the burden of starting and maintaining its own independent non-profit organization.

The Conservancy now welcomes Bongo and Twisted. They show the excellent diversity of useful software available in the FOSS world. The Bongo Project project is building a useful mail, calendaring and contacts system on top of a standards-based server stack and is licensed primarily under the GPLv2. Twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python and licensed under the MIT license (sometimes called the 1-clause BSD license).

The Conservancy now boasts thirteen member projects. It is led by its board of directors, a who's who of both old guard FOSS developers and FOSS non-profit leaders.

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