Today Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership.
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Renaud Chaputreplied to your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 last edited by
@blogdiva @Mastodon The US non-profit has no relationship with the german structure, and never had. The stripping of the german non-profit status is coincidental and completely unrelated.
We try to use EU-based companies where we can, unfortunately it is very hard to do it for everything, domain names being a good example, and we consider this very low-risk (especially compared to other things like legal jurisdictions, or shareholder structure) -
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@Mastodon Seize the means of discussion!
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@andypiper @richlv @Mastodon Can you also add any trademark licenses that you may be granting?
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Michael Downey 🚩replied to Dirk Gütlin on Mastodon last edited by
@DirkGutlin Following "only" 130 people is often going to be pretty limiting in terms of seeing new original content, because most people don't post that much.
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@Mastodon Thank you
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@Mastodon ok sure, hands of power be shifting #westaycritical
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@Mastodon Wishing you the best. Waiting for the day when Mastodon and Fediverse become household names, like Wikipedia.
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> we are going to transfer ownership of key Mastodon ecosystem and platform components (including name and copyrights, among other assets)
Huh. You can't transfer copyrights to an organisation. At least not that of German contributors.
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Nik | Klampfradler 🎸🚲replied to Dirk Gütlin on Mastodon last edited by
@DirkGutlin @Mastodon It's good that you found something else. Also, your reply is entirely unrelated to the original post.
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@andypiper @richlv @Mastodon Are you saying that you're not going to disclose whether a trademark license is part of the deal, and if it is, its terms? A secret license is in large part what facilitated Mullenweg's behavior
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Questions for Mastodon:
Will there be a trademark license from the Mastodon non-profit to Mastodon GmbH?
If so, what will be the terms of the license?
Why are you not assigning the domain names to the non-profit entity?
Why will there still be a for-profit company?
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@Mastodon Great & appreciated Mastodon team
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@pchestek @richlv @Mastodon the board and officers will be announced as part of this process. The trademark questions will be resolved (transparently) as part of this process. The GmbH currently has employees so continues to exist to cover them. This is a transition and your questions are valid and useful, but I don’t have answers at this stage as the end state is not fully set (the blog post states we are looking into the correct jurisdictions etc). Thanks!
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@Mastodon nice
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@Mastodon It would be great, if there was a Patreon tier between 1 and 8 Dollars/Euros. Maybe 4?
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nZ4Sqk9OJ0T4GNd729JZkpjQvv3erIreplied to Mastodon last edited by
@Mastodon send me your books in easy to read PDF
