Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Facilitating payments/contributions to developers

[Karl Goetz]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, 14:31:36 LHST, Matt Lee <address@hidden> wrote:

> My idea for how it would be done...
> 
> A single app is created called "pay-authors" and it could be called by
> any program...
> 
> "pay-authors emacs"

i like the sound of this as a first sttep - it should be much easier to do then 
full blown libraries to support doing this in every app.

> It would look like this: http://i.imgur.com/Th3hK.png and could be an
> embedded web page, ie. https://secure.fsf.org/pay/emacs or embedded in
> the app.
> 
> * Any app could support it by just linking to the page, or by calling
> the app in their program
> * Any program like Synaptic could support it in a similar way.
> * The project website could support it by linking to it.
> 
> Maybe the program is not needed.
> 

having a client side program wold be nice but will introduce maintenance 
issues. Pointing people to a website by a link or wrapper seems like a good 
first step to me.
Thanks,
kk