Re: Is there sufficient interest for keeping me alive on LilyPond?

[Tim's Bitstream]

 On May 26, 2026, at 1:21 PM, Knute Snortum <ksnor...@gmail.com> wrote:  On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 8:04 AM Erik Dao <erikcuong...@gmail.com> wrote: I would like to contribute as well. Many open source projects have a donate button on their website where one can make a one-time or continuing donation.  Is this something LilyPond et al would consider? Historically the problem there has been that there is no centralized Lilypond company or corporation to accept, track, disburse, pay applicable taxes, etc.  There has been no appetite to create such a corporation and in the past we have simply donated money directly to the developer working on whatever was chosen to be funded. Add a worldwide user base with cross-border problems with money transfers and it becomes something of a headache.  A few years ago I was quite stymied by this as none of the services I had already access to would send money outside of the United States; at that time the only reasonable option was PayPal and I have had such negative experiences with them that I refuse to ever have a PayPal account again. However, in the past year I've been able to use wise.com to send money to the EU for a purchase and it worked pretty well with some learning curve frustration.  That would be another option for US users to send money to David; there would be some information he would need to provide to the sender. I've also like to chime my thanks in to David here, as he has done heavy lifting with unglamorous parts of Lilypond. Stuff users like me don't see or even know exists.  He has modernized and updated and rationalized the code base and has a significant contribution to the success that it is.  It is remarkable that Lilypond exists, that it is as powerful as it is and that nobody makes a profit off of it. My head is off to David and the other developers!