Re: Funding Debian projects with money from Freexian's LTS service

2020-11-10 Thread Sam Hartman
I think it is really important that we find a way to accept funding like this. I'm fine if we as a community have concerns about the specifics. But free software isn't supposed to mean developers don't get paid, or the software doesn't get funded (or even the software itself isn't expensive

Funding Debian projects with money from Freexian's LTS service

2020-11-10 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, as you probably know, my company — Freexian — has been running the commercial side of the Debian LTS project, collecting money from sponsors and dispatching it to contributors handling the security updates. This is working pretty well by now and the amount of funding is sufficient to cover