Re: Funding GPL projects or funding the GPL?

[Federico Ferreres]

On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 17:11, Federico Ferreres wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 16:48, Robinson Maureira Castillo wrote:
> > On 26 Jul 2002, Federico Ferreres wrote:
> > 
> > >  
> > > You can chose to assign your money _whenever_ you want (you have 1 year
> > > flexibility). 
> > > 
> > > Project could open a "feature requests" if they like. Some of these
> > > could work in a "reward" fashion. A reward could look like this:
> > > "whoever finishes a working driver for <insert card> gets <sum of funds
> > > offered by members>".
> > >  
> > 
> > You didn't get it... I _do not_ have the money, but I _do_ need the fix, 
> > why do I have to wait a whole year?
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Robinson Maureira Castillo
> > Asesor DAI
> > INACAP
 

Idea 1: You do have $10 and you are trying to free-ride (honest answer).

Idea 2: You don't have $10 or $20 a year to "spare"? Then probably you are using 
(old and) already supported hardware. And because past years developements
are free as in beer. If you ARE a developer, you get a free permament 
membership so you shouldn't care about all this.

Idea 3: Make bugfixes and hardware support are always GPL and not fGPL. The fGPL
will force you to distribute under GPL (or fGPL, at your choise).

Idea 4: Write your own drivers if nobody else would.

Idea 5: You are a student and as such are granted a free membership
until you finish your studies.

Federico