This is a tough issue, with no obvious answer. I had thought about doing something similar for the Checkstyle project I work on.
As I see it, the major problem if you collect donations, is to determine how the money should be divided up among the people who commit to Log4J. I am assuming that you are not planning to keep all the money for yourself, as this would be unfair to people like Mark, who also contribute a lot of time/effort. So, assuming you are planning to divide up the money, how would you plan to do this? This has the potential to open up a Pandora's box of issues. Much in the same way there are issues in paying bonuses to programmers in the work environment. It also has the potential to kill off people being willing to contribute to Log4J. Look at the issues that surround JBoss. Personally, with the Checkstyle project I decided that it was far easier to avoid these problems and not collect donations. I work on Checkstyle for personal enjoyment, plus for professional gain through experience gained. Just my $0.02, Oliver > It appears that the non-profit status of the ASF does precludes such > links. A non-profit organization is not allowed to act as a front > for a for profit organization. > > Good to know. > > At 04:32 PM 7/23/2003 +0200, Ceki Gülcü wrote: >>Hello, >> >>I would like to set up a donations link on the log4j pages similar to >>the Jave project (http://www.jave.de/). The donations will be >>collected by QOS.ch (my company). Thirty percent (30%) of the >>proceedings will be transferred to the Apache Software Foundation in >>order to pay for our infrastructure, legal expenses and shore up >>reserves. The rest (70%) will be used to cover up the expenses of log4j >>development. >> >>What do you think? Is everyone comfortable with this idea? >> >>Let me add that the amounts involved are not very big. I really do not >>expect donations to exceed $2K per year. >> >>I have not yet asked the ASF board for their approval. I wanted to test >>the waters here first. > > -- > Ceki For log4j documentation consider "The complete log4j manual" > ISBN: 2970036908 http://www.qos.ch/shop/products/clm_t.jsp --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
