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    SubjectRe: Funding GPL projects or funding the GPL?
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    On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 13:46, Roger Larsson wrote:
    > On Saturday 27 July 2002 18.22, Larry McVoy wrote:
    > > On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 01:06:56PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
    > > Actually, that's an interesting topic. Other applications could use
    > > the BK model of "free if you're out in the open" and pay otherwise.
    > > It's pretty effective. However, it doesn't work very well when the
    > > community beats you to hell for not being GPLed. I had a thick enough
    > > skin to deal with it, I doubt others would, they'd give up. It also
    > > doesn't work when people refuse to obey the license because they
    > > don't agree with it (we had plenty of that).
    >
    > Trolltech does the same. And have taken the same amount of heat.
    > (Probably A LOT more... since their Qt is the base for KDE)
    >
    > /RogerL
    The problem with the present type of donation systems is knowing your
    donation is not going to be abused.

    I though a model that may work is a United Way type of model ... have a
    central non-profit act as a clearing house for donations to specific
    open source projects. The non-profit would do the proper account
    reporting of receipts, overhead, and funding to the various open source
    projects (an effort to keep donation abuse down and allow open non-bias
    account reporting). Allowing either a general donation or target
    donation from the public to a particular project. Then a specific
    project would register with the non-profit to receive funding help. In
    order to qualify you would need to provide certain technical/financial
    reporting of your project to the non-profit to demonstrate you need the
    financial help and you are working on a needed project.

    The real problem is getting something like this started.


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