</ul>

</p>

<h2>Asset Stewardship</h2>

<p>Conservancy can hold any assets for the project on its behalf.  This

  includes copyrights, trademarks, domain names, physical computer

  equipment or anything that should be officially held in the name of the

  project.  Member projects are not required that Conservancy hold all

  assets of a project. (For example, member projects are

  not <em>required</em> to assign copyrights to the Conservancy.)

  However, Conservancy can accommodate the needs of projects that want

  their assets under the control of a not-for-profit entity and exercised

  only for the public good.</p>

<h2>Contract Negotiation and Execution</h2>

<p>Projects sometimes need to negotiate and execute a contract with a

  company.  For example, when a project wants to organize and run a

  conference, the venue usually has a complicated contract for rental of

  the space and services.  Conservancy assists projects in the negotiation

  of such contracts, and can sign them on behalf of the project.</p>

<h2>FLOSS Copyright License Enforcement</h2>

<p>Complying with FLOSS licenses is easy, as they permit and encourage

  both non-commercial and commercial distribution and improvements.

  Nevertheless, violations of FLOSS licenses (in particular of

  the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GPL</a>

  and <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html">LGPL</a>) are all

  too common.  At request of the project's leaders, Conservancy can carry

  out license enforcement activity on behalf of the project's copyright

  holders.</p>

<h2>Fundraising Assistance</h2>

<p>Conservancy provides various tools and advice to member projects on

  methods of raising funds for their projects' earmarked accounts.</p>

<h2>Avoid Non-Profit Administrivia</h2>

<p>Member projects can continue to operate in the same way they did before

joining the Conservancy without having to select a board of directors or

any other layer of corporate management, without having to maintain

corporate records and without having to do any of the other things

required of incorporated entities.  The Conservancy handles all of that

burden on behalf of its projects.</p>