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Ok - sponsorship.

Donations is to my mind a charitable endeavour - the small amount of change is thrown over and not considered. In fact lack of consideration is probably the right legal term. Sponsorship involves some contractural form to occur - and so implies a trade of value.

To be fair you could have been saying get better at donations by rebranding them as sponsorship instead of better at soliciting uncontracted contributions.

But I still think we need to find a new and better way to monetise OSS contributions.



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