Michael Tremer:
On Mon, 2015-08-31 at 12:08 +0200, IT Superhack wrote:
Michael Tremer:
I certainly like the idea to help funding the project. However I do not see any point in raising money to give to the lawyers to defend the trademark or to sue because of the GPL violation. That money could certainly be used better than being given to the lawyers.
I agree with Michael. Raising money just for giving them to lawyers is not a very good solution in my point of view.
In the past, I noticed that there were patches send to grsecurity coming from the IPFire team. Therefore, I guess there might be a way to get out of this situation.
What does that change?
It is usually much easier to solve a conflict if both sides already know each other and cooperated in the past... (Not sure if it works here, but usually, it does.)
Remember Transifex? On their website, they said that open-source projects don't need to pay anything, commercial projects need to do so. I like this idea because it takes the money from those who can afford to pay it, and not from everybody. Maybe Brad and the PaX team would agree to this...
This is very easy to do with services and not so easy with software. We don't have a license for that, either. I personally would not consider this being a good option because free software should be free for every one.
Of course, it would conflict with the definition of "free" software. But in my opinion, it is better to restrict the freedom than to ruin your project, and I think that's what the grsecurity team did (which is understandable to me).
Just donate to the projects you use and love. Every single bit does help. It will sum up soon.
I have a general question here: How much users does IPFire has? (Once Michael said if everybody running an IPFire system would donate 1€ per month, worries about funding would become obsolete.)
We do not know exactly how many systems are out there. If you count users that would be an extremely higher number than instances, because we know that there are many with hundreds and thousands of users.
Of course, but I'm sure there is a way of telling the amount (1 000? 100 000? 1 Million?) of systems, isn't it?
I said that in my talk at the last IPFire summit, that if we had one Euro for each running system a month, we would have enough money to run the project in a different way :)
Ah, okay, that was it.
Best regards, Timmothy Wilson