From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: patreon or alternative? Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:16:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86wovfubzx.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1528085692 1876 195.159.176.226 (4 Jun 2018 04:14:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 04:14:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Leake Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 04 06:14:47 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fPgtK-0000OA-OK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2018 06:14:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37545 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fPgvR-0002qr-TB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:16:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45569) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fPgvE-0002pu-1Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:16:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fPgvD-0003Jb-5e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:16:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41758) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fPgv8-0003GT-3e; Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:16:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fPgv7-00075R-BD; Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:16:37 -0400 In-reply-to: <86wovfubzx.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (message from Stephen Leake on Sun, 03 Jun 2018 10:26:58 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." 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:225982 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Is there any objection to asking for donations via Patreon (or a > different service) on the Emacs ada-mode home page > (https://www.nongnu.org/ada-mode/)? In principle, asking for donations for free software is fine. However, we can't promote Patreon since that site requires nonfree software to donate. One thing we can do is ask people to develop free replacement JS code to talk with some of these sites. You could ask people in the US to snail you checks, or postal money orders. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)