Re: [rhelv5-list] Looking for license donations

+1. I'd donate...

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Ken Snider wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> 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.
>