Licensing Notice Fedora Commons joined with the DSpace Foundation and began operating under the new name DuraSpace in July 2009. DuraSpace holds the copyrights of the DSpace Foundation, Inc. The DSpace Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)3 corporation established in July 2007 with a mission to promote and advance the dspace platform enabling management, access and preservation of digital works. The Foundation was able to transfer the legal copyright from Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to the DSpace Foundation in October 2007. Many of the files in the source code may contain a copyright statement stating HP and MIT possess the copyright, in these instances please note that the copy right has transferred to the DSpace foundation, and subsequently to DuraSpace.