Re: Funding GPL projects or funding the GPL?

[Jon Portnoy]

If you want to donate money to a project(s), I'm sure that a simple email 
to the maintainer(s) of that project would get you an address to send such 
a donation to. Myself, I feel that donation should be optional, besides 
the obvious practical difficulties with something like this (e.g., the 
task of keeping track of who has paid, not to mention the necessary 
restrictions on downloading at various sites, not to mention the fact that 
people will end up just getting source and posting it for everyone, not to 
mention...)

On 26 Jul 2002, Federico Ferreres wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 14:01, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > Larry, what the hell are you smoking?  It's a repost from tabloid, for
> > fsck sake - clearly says so in the beginning.  Thinking is, indeed, hard
> > for these guys, but what's encouraging about that?
> 
> Would it have made any difference if I posted it here first? Or if I was
> a respected developer? Shame on me, I happened to have studied
> economics.
> 
> Anyway, the OSS model is just fine, so you shouldn't care. If at any
> point you change your mind and want/need my $20 bucks, I will be ready
> to support you (as well as the hundred millions x $20 waiting out there
> arround the globe).
> 
> Federico
> 
> 
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