On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 12:25 PM Joseph Kesselman <kesh...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > On the topic of finding: I presume Apache would have no objection to some of > us having tip jars open on Ko-fi and the like? Not exactly salary, but it > would give users a way to reward/encourage effort. > I assume not. They clearly don't object to professional developers being paid fulltime salaries by various companies to work on Apache code. Some years ago, I tried something like you suggest to fund a non-Apache open source project, but it wasn't approved by the service. (Kickstarter maybe? or Patreon?) I suspect someone could make it work if they were willing to jump through a few more hoops. However, even setting that up would take time and effort away from everything else that needs to be done. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elh...@ibiblio.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@xalan.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@xalan.apache.org