 | | | Looking for license donations | Looking for license donations 2007-05-07 - By Paul Krizak
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+1. I'd donate...
Paul Krizak 5900 E. Ben White Blvd. MS 625
Advanced Micro Devices Austin, TX 78741
Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Phone: (512) 602-8775
Silicon Design Division Cell: (512) 791-0686
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.
>
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