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The objection is you're committing fraud. You're soliciting 'donations' for a third party (everyone committing to a project) without their consent. Unbeknownst
by vitriol83 12y ago
The objection is you're committing fraud. You're soliciting 'donations' for a third party (everyone committing to a project) without their consent. Unbeknownst to the donaters you're then keeping these 'donations' because the third-party has no interest in taking them. This is pretty shaky ground to be on, and it only takes one person to decide to take legal action against you.
- pbreit 12y agoThey should simply state and then execute that refused donations will be sent to other projects or returned. I don't think this is that big of a problem.
- benologist 12y agoThey don't do that, they just lie. https://tip4commit.com/github/django/django https://tip4commit.com/github/django/django Project maintainers have decided not to notify new contributors about tips and they probably don't like this way of funding. Then they return the tip to the 'project' pool which is themselves for unclaimed or unwanted funds: Funds that are not claimed during 30 days get returned back to the donation pool of the project The donor is deliberately deceived about whether the person or project will ever get the money.