Re: Looking for license donations

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.

-- 
Ken Snider