The donation XMLMind makes does not introduce any dependency of slides open source. It is just a donation made to promote the project. So I don't see any problem.
We only need a "Sponsors page" and need to vote for each sponsor, I think.
Stefan



Daniel Florey wrote:

So what should we do? Would be great to have this tool to work with. I've seen 
this page where some hardware donations have been mentioned:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html

So personally I like the idea that the commiters get some tools for free to 
support their work and that the one who donated them gets a credit in any form.
Do you have a proposal how we could achieve this?
Cheers,
Daniel

"Slide Developers Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 
08.11.04 15:59:37:

Daniel Florey wrote:


Hi,
Good news:
I've recieved an email from the author of the great XMLEditor software. It's a 
very nice piece of software that works perfect to create docbook based 
documentation.
As you can see from the attached email, he will donate a free professional 
license for the Slide commiters. So if you are interested, please send me a 
mail containing your @apache email address.
Any objections to add XMLMind to the sponsors part of the Slide page? I'm sure 
that nobody will vote against it after using the nice XMLEditor (that already 
supports WebDAV...)



I'm not sure this is a policy the ASF would approve of. I don't think I have ever seen this type of sponsorship in any ASF project. As you know ASF works on the basis of merit where contributions are rewarded on an individual basis.


What do you mean by this?


Personally I would be strongly against this form of partnership where the only cooperative structure is a material one. If XMLMind is interested in cooperation of the kind we do at the ASF, then the first step would be to make their product ASL or compatible.

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