Hi, On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 18:12 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote: > But I still can't see why it would be a bad thing to allow donors to > donate money to specific features and what legal problems that would > then arise. What would be the advantage if we allowed it? I can only see disadvantages if we allow people to use their money to influence our decisions on the future of GIMP. And I also expect that it will have a negative effect on the overall motivation of developers to work on the code for free. > The administrative overhead would fall on me to the extent possible, and > as long as patches are GPL and taxes etc are handled, what legal > problems would there be? Maybe these problems are bigger than I > currently see I am sure there are many that you and me can't even imagine. But I don't see the point in discussing the legal and admininstrative problems unless we first come to the conclusion that we consider bounties and feature-bound donations a good idea. And so far the consensus on this list and on GIMP developer meetings has been that it isn't. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
