Re^3: SO and AI (update x 2)

[jdporter]

The Perl Foundation is obviously the legal owner of the site

As far as I've been able to discover so far, this site doesn't actually have an owner. Certainly in the early days it was owned by the Everything Development Corporation (EDC), but I'm not sure that entity still exists; and when it dissolved, I don't know how PerlMonks was disposed (if at all).

Corion wrote:

Perlmonks.org is loosely related to TPF. TPF provides the legal entity representing Perlmonks.org in the real world.

That doesn't sound like ownership.

I'm pretty sure that if TPF owned PerlMonks, they'd have been at least somewhat involved in the running of the place. But they never have been.

Update: After some research, I've found evidence that TPF has tried to be involved in PM a little, on very few occasions, mainly/solely having to do with the question of how best to use the funds which have accumulated in TPF's PerlMonks earmark. (As far as I know, nothing was ever resolved and the funds remain unused.)

[LanX]

We had a prior discussion that TPF is providing legal representation. That's what the term in the footer means.

PerlMonks was recently assimilated by The Perl Foundation.

I'd say they are the "owners", but would need to compensate the cabals in case they wanted to transfer this ownership.

Speculative now, and I don't know if it's even worth speculating.

[jdporter]

In an email discussion I had with the Founding Fathers three years ago, specifically on the question of who owns PerlMonks, nate said:

When EDC folded, we donated PM to TPF.

I found this rather intestesting comment by vroom, which - among other things - shows that PM was "a part of YAS" (a predecessor of TPF) by the end of 2001.

[LanX]

> have accumulated in TPF's PerlMonks earmark.

That's a general problem for the TPF, I remember them saying they have millions they can't spend because they were donated for special projects.