[Devil-linux-develop] donations

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Hi

I was thinking about opening a paypal account for donations to Devil-Linux.
We would see by this way, how much the people really would really donate.

Another thing I was thinking about,  to do it like Dansguardin ( 
http://dansguardian.intmain.com/ ) and give out a download license.
This means that DL is still under GPL, but companies have to pay a 
certain amount in order to have a valid DL license.
I was thinking  about an amount between $10-$50 per company and release. 
Personal use and non-profit organizations for free, of course. This 
means it would be an enterprise license for the current release (they 
can install as many servers as they want).
Active developers would have special rights, of course.

Another thing would be including commercial virus scanners and other 
products. But for this, we would have to provide a commercial and free 
version. But I don't like this idea.
But I have the bad feeling, that we have to do it, to get there, where 
we want to be.

When we do this, we could eventualy effort our long planned own server 
and other services. What do you think about it?

Does somebody have some knowledge about the tax situation? I'm currently 
living in the U.S., but I'm pretty sure that there will be some issues.

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cu
  Heiko

http://www.devil-linux.org