<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 15, 2020, at 7:26 PM, Brendan Hickey <<a href="mailto:brendan.m.hickey@gmail.com" class="">brendan.m.hickey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">"<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:metropolis,sans-serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">It encourages fair compensation.</span><span style="font-family:metropolis,sans-serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""> The software project’s maintainers may, at their discretion, request remuneration in the form of code contributions, financial consideration, or other forms of voluntary support from organizations that derive commercial value from the software.”</span></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>So asking for voluntary donations or code contributions is verboten? What about all those projects signed up with Tidelift and OpenCollective, are they not open source anymore?</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>