+1. I'd donate...
Paul Krizak 5900 E. Ben White Blvd. MS 625
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Ken Snider wrote:
Axel Thimm wrote:
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Five of the 10 currently used licenses will expire in less than ten
days and all attempts to renew them have not worked out until now (the
other five will expire by December). There are several paths that
ATrpms can take:
o Find someone to donate RHEL licenses
o Reduce the number of required licenses by dropping platforms.
ppc has not been the greatest hit judging from the download
statistics, so it could probably be canceled
o Reduce the number of required licenses by dropping distros.
RHEL3 has seen its glory days pass by as well.
o Switch from using RHEL to using CentOS/SL.
Until now ATrpms could claim to be safe from any possible rebuild
bugs, while CentOS/SL make a great job in reproducing the API/ABI of
RHEL there is always a small possibility to miss something.
o A mix of the above
Axel, while I do not believe I can donate licenses themselves, I would
be happy to offer contributions to a "license pool" (via PayPal?) that
can be used to purchase your needed licenses.
The level of compatibility you rpmforge folk maintain, especially for
RHEL, has been invaluable to both myself personally, and the
corporations I work for, and I'd be happy to work within my organization
to obtain part of the funding needed for you to continue as things are.
Further, if you set up a specific "license fund", I bet you'd find quite
a few individuals and organizations willing to offer some level of
support as well.
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