I never met Eddan but he friended me on fb. I'll help pester him.
Wait no! There's a lot of confusion here. A DBA is NOT a business license and there is no reason to involve Eddan.
A business license is something you get from the city. It's just a way for them to extract a fee and put you in the database of people who have to pay the 1% city of oakland business tax. Someone needs to go to the right bureaucratic office in Oakland and register us and pay the fee. Then we need to tell them that we're a 501c3 (when that actually happens) so we can escape the 1% tax.