Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Funding GPL projects or funding the GPL? | From | Keith Adamson <> | Date | 27 Jul 2002 15:49:53 -0400 |
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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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