On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:21:29 -0800 Marvin Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 03:24:27PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > > btw, I haven't seen any of the three funders (Andy, Jonathan, Marvin) say > > whether their money is just for [expr], or does it include [expr~] and/or > > [fexpr~] as well. The task description should be made clearer. > > What I would like to see is uniform BSD licensing for PD Vanilla. > > That said, if Shahrokh believed that the task only included [expr], I'm fine > with that. I doubt he's going to be funded at anywhere near what his time is > worth, either way. I agree with Matju on early clarity of requirements. For my part I had assumed a small amount of money like one or two hundred would justify only cursory changes to [expr] to bring its licence to BSD compliance. > > Also, there's no webpage about it. Perhaps you could get together to > > write a page listing the goals and the amounts of money. It could be on > > puredata.info. There could also be a new section for that kind of thing, > > and/or it could be put next to the Google Summer of Code pages and other > > funding-related things. > > Personally, I'm not into the idea of generalizing this -- public funding is a > legal and bureaucratic hassle, and I'm considering this a specific charity > donation a la sponsoring a friend in Race for The Cure, not seed money for a > bug-bounty model of development. I'm also unlikely to contribute again. For > me, this is a one-time put-your-money-where-your-mouth-is special situation > that I only really considered because the original author made a unique > proposal. > > Marvin Humphrey > My leaning is with Marvin here, to support a one-off project as raised by Matt (Hardoff), rather than initiate a general bounty movement for Pd. Although maybe that is another discussion the community could be having.(?) -- Andy Farnell <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
