NB: If some want to translate the question on the French or German board, then keep updating the threads with answers posted elswhere, it would allow us to test a form of inter-community debate.

Why not just use Virtual Citizenship Association? Is that not the name your using now.

The VCA and the company are two different entities: the VCA is us, the community, while the company is VCA + Mekensleep + Valentin Lacambre, and will be used to buy the assets from the liquidator, run the servers and hire some employees.

Personally, I like "Libre Studio"; "libre" means "free as in freedom" in Spanish and French, thus avoiding the free/open pitfall.

I'd prefer "Open Ryzom", as others have said, "free" has the connotation of "gratuit", which it would not be. I think I could settle for "Ryzom Libre", but I don't really see where the "Studio" would come from...

Does Ryzom need to be in the name? This is a company name not the name of the game. In the end the name can be anything, it's not the name that matters, it's what the company and people behind the name can do that matters.

Does Ryzom need to be in the name? This is a company name not the name of the game. In the end the name can be anything, it's not the name that matters, it's what the company and people behind the name can do that matters.

EDIT:

Thinking a bit more about it, I think it really should be there, as the rhizome symbolises the community as well... sprouting where everything seemed lost...

While I understand this concept...I'm wondering if this company might not do other things in the future besides save our wonderful game? If so, then having Ryzom in the name might be limiting in a way. Can someone give a yes/no/maybe about that? Libera Studio is nice, I like the thought behind it.

Suggestion: Pick one of the favorite animals and add a suffix to it.

KincherWare, YuboWare, etc.

R² Interactive, R² Arts, R² Entertainment whatsoever....
(R² : Power to the players!)

Yubosoft sounds nice, but it reminds me too much of Ubisoft

Well, deciding on a business form means getting serious,
whereas looking for a name is pretty much just for fun...

...of course we need to talk about the business form,
but prior to that we gotta talk about the business model,
decide on its structures, specify its objectives, put sb. in
charge etc. pp.

So in the end it´s just so much easier to find a name... :P

There have been concerns that it might be more important to decide on the business form of the society, i.e. private limited company, joint stock company, etc., before deciding the name under which it should become known.

Are there any thoughts on this?

It will be an SAS, which is a simple joint stock company under French law.

About re-discussing the whole company statutes, etc. It would be nice if we had time ahead of us, to discuss, draft, rediscuss, vote, etc. but this is not the case. That's something we will be able to do with the project once it is there, once it has been bought. In the meantime, we go for the project described in the social contract with approximately the same proposal as the last time.

For example, the vca doesn't mention a thing about the "intellectual property", only about free and open software, which in my opinion is only a subclass of the whole IP.

Could you please clarify which social contract you are referring to, since when I looked the last time, the ryzom.org and the virtualcitizenship.org social contracts were quite different things? For example, the vca doesn't mention a thing about the "intellectual property", only about free and open software, which in my opinion is only a subclass of the whole IP.
I'm just wondering, because all of the old pledges were made under the ryzom.org contract, and might not hold much weight if we're actually talking about the vca.org version, which leaves too many things open for this special case (Ryzom) as opposed to protecting and promoting virtual citizens' rights.

This is under the Ryzom.org social contract. The VCA social contract is the organization's social contract, it's not meant to serve directly for Ryzom, only to provide general guidelines.

I would highly, highly suggest against using terms like "intellectual property" since they are essentially meaningless and misleading. You would be better off specifically discussing copyrights, trademarks and patents rather than using an amorphous, non-legal term such as "intellectual property." This way there is no confusion about what you mean.

These three laws have nothing in common.