On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 07:40:37AM -0500, Michael Scheidell wrote: > (FreeBSD never needed to set up a 'bounty' system for people wanting > to help pay for a port, have they?
If you check the archives, you'll see that there have been many discussions over the years about the need/desire/whatever to have a bounty system for FreeBSD (not just ports). However, no one has ever actually done the followup work to set one up, despite some stated good intentions. To answer your next question just before you ask it, IIUC the FreeBSD Foundation is not able to set up such a system without their US tax status as a non-profit being subject to a far greater degree of scrutiny. I'm no expert on US tax law but my understanding is that anything that looks like a "passthrough" is what's questionable, e.g., someone pays a 501c(3) to do a task with the tacit understanding that they will turn around and pay someone else to do that task. Again, check the archives. Finally, don't blame me, I just live in this country :) mcl _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
