[Xymon] Handling donations (especially commercial ones)

[T.J. Yang]

>Commercial license
>
>The following commercial license options are available for Xymon:
>
>Site license for less than 50 hosts: € 100/year (USD 125/year)
>Site license for less than 1000 hosts: € 500/year (USD 625/year
>Site license for 1000 hosts or more: € 1000/year (USD 1250/year)
>"Hosts" are counted as number of host entries in the hosts.cfg file - this number is reported by Xymon in the "xymongen" status.
>
>The Xymon commercial license is sold by Xymon Software, which is a company registered in Denmark as CVR reg. number 26288681.
>
>Please contact sales at xymon.com to acquire a commercial license.
>
>Support
>
>Buying a commercial license for Xymon gives You e-mail access directly to the Xymon developer team for reporting bugs. However, due to the development being a >volunteer effort, there is no guaranteed response-time, although we will make a best effort to respond to questions within 2 business days.


Reading from above from license clauses, I believe this is a very good
license change.
Hopefully in the long run xymon can have a team of people doing the
support and enhancement.

Cheers

tj


On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been contacted off-list by a long-time Xymon user, who had some
> thoughts about how companies can help the Xymon project along by donating
> some money to the project. We discussed this a bit, and he suggested that I
> float my ideas on the mailing list for input - and gave me permission to
> quote from his e-mails.
>
> He wrote:
>
> "I realise (along with others) that you put a huge effort into xymon and
> given that our company uses the application extensively I would like to push
> to get the company to donate something on a regular basis. It may not be big
> but that’s something we can work on over time.
>
> "I've been involved in another open source project for a while now and what
> they did was to create an association based in Germany to which payments can
> be given to a dedicated bank account. This model works for our company from
> a donation point of view but I was just wondering if you had any plans to do
> something similar?"
>
>
> After thinking about this for a while, I think I can see some issues that
> companies might have with donating to the project via PayPal, which is
> currently the only option. There was another user recently who sent me a
> nice donation, but apparently it felt awkward enough for them to do so via
> PayPal that they contacted me directly afterwards, to make sure that the
> donation really did come through.
>
>
> The recent discussion about "Big environment" deployments of Xymon clearly
> shows that there are some places where Xymon is *really* used a lot. So
> maybe there are more companies who could be convinced to support Xymon - me
> - with donations.
>
>
> So what I came up with was this:
>
> "I do have a company registered here in Denmark, so perhaps I should
> consider using that for accepting corporate donations. Then I can
> provide genuine invoices, VAT-numbers etc - all the stuff that companies
> normally expect when they buy software. And they can transfer the amount to
> an official bank account with a proper IBAN bank account number ..."
>
>
> And to make this a bit more formalised, I've added this page to the Xymon
> website: http://www.xymon.com/license/
>
>
> It is important for me to emphasize that Xymon is, and always will be,
> available free of charge under an open source license - regardless of how or
> where it is being used. So when I write about "buying a license" to use
> Xymon, it is only because that is the kind of language most manager-types
> can understand (hmm, I sincerely hope I didn't offend anyone with that
> blatant generalisation). You will not be required to buy a license - but it
> gives you a really nice feeling :-)
>
>
> I'd appreciate any thoughs you have about this, and if You'd rather discuss
> it off-list just mail me directly.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
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T.J. Yang