4 ms·
No. https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-meta/blob/master/policies-and-procedures/jellyfin-social-contract.md https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-meta/blob/ma
by amiga386 1mo ago
No.
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-meta/blob/master/policies-and-procedures/jellyfin-social-contract.md https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-meta/blob/master/polici...
> Jellyfin funds itself exclusively from donations by individual users. It does not and will not accept any sponsorship or other monetary compensation in exchange for features, priority access, support, or any other work by the community.
They spend the donations on paying for hosting servers, etc. They don't pay anyone a salary.
Their post highlights that your favourite third party client can be different. If your third party client is made by someone who'll accept donations, you should donate to them to keep your client going.
- entropicdrifter 1mo agoNote that the lead dev of the official android clients does accept personal donations (via Github Sponsors and Buy Me A Coffee), but does not take requests on how to prioritize the work because he wants to keep it strictly as a hobby.
- account42 1mo agoThis is really the most healthy way to do things for small or medium-sized open source projects. Paying some people just creates and unnecessary hierarchy that is divorced from the how much they actually contribute to the project and can be an endless source for drama.