From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joshua Branson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: patreon or alternative? 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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:226067 Archived-At: Amin Bandali writes: > I can think of Liberapay [0] and fosspay [1] off top of my head. > Liberapay is licenses under CC0 and fosspay under MIT. > > Liberapay seems to be using MangoPay behind the scenes, with whom > they've apparently run into trouble with, and are in danger of > closing ([2]). Worth keeping an eye on. Ahh man. I thought librepay was here to stay! I didn't realize that it had some issues. > > fosspay, on the other hand, uses Stripe for doing the actual > payment, which requires running non-free JS I believe. Also sad day. :) Let's hope gnu wallet (is that what's it's called) reaches 1.0 soon. > > There used to be a Gittip (later, Gratipay) at one point but it > sadly closed down last year. Liberapay and fosspay seem to be the > least worst of the available options, but I'd love to hear if > there are any better options. > > [0]: https://github.com/liberapay/liberapay.com > [1]: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/fosspay > [2]: https://github.com/liberapay/salon/issues/232 > > P.S. PayPal seems to have an Apache-2.0 licensed JS checkout > implementation here [4] but I don't know whether or not by using > that one could entirely avoid non-free JS when making a payment. > > [4]: https://github.com/paypal/paypal-checkout > > Best, > > -amin