At 10:41 AM 7/23/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>No objections at all in principle.  Just curious what's meant, exactly, by
>"cover up the expenses of log4j development."

It should have read "cover" not "cover up". It ain't the pizza-connection. :-)

To answer your question, any amount of sustained development takes
time and thus costs money. Although I do not expect to be fully paid
for the time dedicated for log4j, a small of compensation would be
welcome.

I hope this answers your question.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ceki Gülcü [mailto:ceki@qos.ch]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:33 AM
>To: log4j-dev@jakarta.apache.org
>Subject: Donations link
>
>
>Hello,
>
>I would like to set up a donations link on the log4j pages similar to the
>Jave project (http://www.jave.de/).  The donations will be collected by
>QOS.ch (my company). Thirty percent (30%) of the proceedings will be
>transferred to the Apache Software Foundation in order to pay for our
>infrastructure, legal expenses and shore up reserves. The rest (70%) will be
>used to cover up the expenses of log4j development.
>
>What do you think? Is everyone comfortable with this idea?
>
>Let me add that the amounts involved are not very big. I really do not
>expect donations to exceed $2K per year.
>
>I have not yet asked the ASF board for their approval. I wanted to test the
>waters here first.
>
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