Timothy <tecos...@gmail.com> writes: > In this entire 40+ message thread, only two options have been listed (besides > the FSF’s special arrangement) which do not direct people to non-free JS: > Cryptocurrancy > Which is volatile in value, regional regulation, and > individual distaste. > Cheques > Which are a dying (and in some places dead) form of bank transfer > instruction. It’s already been established that Ihor would face a > US$200 fee > when collecting a cheque, and over where I am the central bank > announced in > 2019 that at a point in the near future the “it will be appropriate to > wind up > the cheque system”. Last year a neighbouring country stopped offering or > receiving cheques altogether.
You did not list direct bank transfers. They should be doable given that a person looking to donate contuct us via email to obtain transfer info. Though I am not 100% sure how it holds from the point of view of privacy and suceptibility to scam. > I think it’s fair to say these are not viable options, leaving accepting > donations via Liberapay, Stripe, etc. as the only practical options. Until > then, > let’s not allow perfect to be the enemy of good. > > As it happens though, Stripe seem to have open sourced all of their frontend > code — all of these repos <https://github.com/stripe> seem to be MIT-licensed. > Perhaps we just need to get this to be compatible with liberajs? If Stripe is licensed under GNU-compatible license, it is great news and the whole problem appears to be solved. There is no requirement that every appropriately licensed JS code is also correctly recognized by liberajs. > So, to sum up the situation I’d suggest we pick from the following options: > ⁃ Accept the situation isn’t great > ⁃ Build/fund a new tool > ⁃ Convince an existing tool to be more libera-friendly > ⁃ Use the FSF as an intermediary > > Asking maintainers not to accept donations (or making it prohibitively > difficult) is not a solution. I support this statement. Best, Ihor
