The current structure
The awoui.com website and the services attached to it are published and operated by a sole proprietorship, Antoine DRIGET, trading under the business name LeGuideInfo (brand LeGuideInfo). It is the entity that contracts, invoices, hosts and answers — to its customers as much as to the law. Full contact details, registration numbers and the hosting provider are listed in the legal notice.
One consequence worth remembering: there is today no membership, no dues and no voting rights. The commitments made to you are those of the sole proprietorship, not those of a nonprofit.
Why a nonprofit is being considered
A sole proprietorship does very well what is asked of it: decide quickly, commit, be accountable. It has three limits that only a nonprofit framework lifts, and those limits are why the project exists.
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Continuity
A sole proprietorship rests on one person. A digital commons that would not survive its founder is not a commons: it is one more dependency. A nonprofit has an existence of its own, and successors.
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Openness, guaranteed by the bylaws
Today the project's openness rests on an intention — ours. Written into bylaws, it becomes a rule that can no longer be changed alone.
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A voice for those who contribute
People give time and code. A nonprofit structure gives them a vote rather than a guest seat, and makes it possible to receive dues and donations for shared infrastructure.
Where the project stands
The legal vehicle already exists: the DRIGET association, registered in 2019. It is dormant today — it operates no service, collects no dues and does not publish this site.
Reactivating it is not a formality: it needs bylaws that really say what the association safeguards, a board that is not a single person, and accounts that are kept. Until those three conditions are met, announcing nonprofit governance would be a façade. We prefer to write it plainly.
What the association would carry once active: safeguarding openness and the licenses, the members' voice in general assembly, funding of the shared infrastructure, and publication of accounts and decisions. None of that is available today; this page will be updated on the day it is.
What holds true either way
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The code stays open
What is published as open source is published under a license, and a license cannot be taken back. The structure that publishes the site changes nothing about that.
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Your data stays yours
What is written in the privacy policy binds the current publisher, today, without waiting for any structure whatsoever.
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We say who does what
Publisher, operator, hosting provider: everything is named in the legal notice. A "nonprofit" page that let you believe in governance that does not exist would be the opposite of that commitment.