I disagree. I don't think that it would be unusual or, for that matter, unfair for a donor to place some constraints on their donation. We must remember that many times these donations will not be of a purely altruistic nature. I can envision many situations where a donor may be giving something to us because they hope that we can do something for them. I think that this may be especially true in the case of large donations.
I think that if we do not address this situation initially we will end up addressing it on a case by case basis. Maybe that is better. It probably wouldn't hurt to spell some groud rules out in advance. As to the overhead that tracking would impose, we are still free to turn down donations based on the complexity of the conditions. I think that tracking donations is going to be an issue, however, with or without this specific detail. On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 05:31:13PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Donations are troublesome if we need to keep track of them and the > conditions of use and we do not have the resources for such a buerocracy. > > And its not really ours if there are still strings attached. In that sense then, nothing is ours. The time of our volenteers has all sorts of strings attached. We should afford any other donor the same respect that we afford our developers. -- __________________________________________________________________ Ean Schuessler A guy running Linux Novare International Inc. A company running Linux *** WARNING: This signature may contain jokes.
