Fedora as an crowd founded project an additional funding source to our sponsor

"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg at gmail.com
Wed Jul 24 15:09:21 UTC 2013


On 07/24/2013 02:13 PM, inode0 wrote:
> Fedora is not any sort of legally recognized entity as far as I know.
> And the fact that the vast majority of contributions are time rather
> than money is because in order to contribute money requires one to
> send a check made out to Red Hat and I don't think Red Hat wants
> checks sent to them earmarked for Fedora which I'm sure would have
> interesting legal and accounting complications. This latter point may
> have changed very recently although I'm not aware of the details of
> how other organizations are making money contributions to Flock.

Cant one not just donate directly to an earmark account via paypal or 
direct money transfer.

Do people still use checks on the 21 century where paper money is slowly 
becoming obsolete?

JBG


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