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+.\" dhcp-contrib.5
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+.TH dhcp-contrib 5
+.SH NAME
+Contributing to the Internet Software Consortium DHCP Distribution
+.SH EXHORTATION
+.PP
+The Internet Software Consortium DHCP Distribution has historically
+been funded through the donation of various charitable and
+non-charitable organizations, as well as by individual contributions.
+To some degree, support for the distribution has been done on a
+volunteer basis, but by and large the reason that you have this
+distribution in your hands right now is because people like you have
+provided funding for it.
+.PP
+We would like to encourage you to continue to provide such support, or
+to begin providing it if you have not in the past. You are in no way
+obliged to provide us with any support at all, and this message is not
+intended to guilt-trip you about providing support. If you choose
+not to provide support, for whatever reason, you aren't going to be
+treated differently on the mailing lists, and your requests for
+features aren't going to be prioritized any differently. If you want
+to be treated differently, you can buy a formal support contract, of
+course, but this document is about contributions, not support
+contracts.
+.SH FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
+.PP
+Q: So if I won't be treated differently, why contribute?
+.PP
+A: The obvious
+answer is self-interest. If you contribute, it means that the author
+will have time to work on stuff that's not of the utmost high
+priority. People are constantly asking for things that we would
+really like to provide, but for which we have no time. By
+contributing, you are literally giving us time to do these things.
+The amount of time varies with the contribution, of course, but if
+everybody contributes a little bit, it can add up to a lot.
+.PP
+Q: But everybody isn't required to contribute. If I contribute and
+nobody else does, doesn't that make me kind of a sucker?
+.PP
+A: Obviously, we don't think so, but think about this: if you contribute,
+then we can point out to others that we've received contributions, and
+this will make the idea of contributing seem more legitimate to them,
+making it more likely that they will contribute. So your
+contribution has more value than just the money you provide - it also
+helps us to raise funds from others.
+.PP
+Q: If I contribute, I want a say in what work gets done.
+.PP
+A: We do sell support contracts, and we will also do development work
+on specification if we feel it is relevant (although you won't get to
+own it). This can be quite expensive, though - much more than even
+the maximum we'd expect you to donate. So no, contributing doesn't
+buy you a say in what work gets done.
+.PP
+Q: I work for a charity that feeds the homeless. Should my charity
+contribute?
+.PP
+A: Absolutely not! The idea here is not to take food out of the mouths
+of poor people. If donating to us would mean that somebody in need
+that you could have helped will go without help, keep the money.
+It's not worth it to us. This goes for providing shelter,
+psychiatric aid, legal assistance, and any other similar charity work.
+.PP
+Q: Cool! I work for a university, helping students who are in need of
+an education, so we shouldn't contribute, right?
+.PP
+A: No, that's not quite what we mean. Sure, if you work for an
+organization that provides free education to needy people, at whatever
+level, then we'd rather you did that than support us. But if your
+university has a big budget for running the computer center, can
+afford to plant nice gardens and maintain nice lawns, and maybe has
+all its dorms wired for ethernet, then even if you qualify as a
+nonprofit under federal law (or the law in your own country) you
+should still contribute. DHCP is just as much a part of your
+infrastructure as your campus wiring.
+.PP
+Q: This software came on a CD that I bought. Haven't I already
+contributed?
+.PP
+A: If you're seeing this notice, and you didn't see a notice saying
+that the people who sold you your CD contributed to us, then no, you
+haven't already contributed. In general, we encourage people to
+include this software on their distributions if they feel it would be
+useful, and we do not require them to contribute in exchange for that
+privilege.
+.PP
+Q: I've contributed to the development of this software by submitting bug
+reports and patches. Why should I also contribute money?
+.PP
+A: When you contributed these bug reports and patches, was there zero
+effort involved on our part in integrating the patches or figuring out
+what was wrong? Probably not. Bug reports and patches can be
+extremely valuable, and we can't say that in no event do they qualify
+you to get out of contributing - after all, we're leaving that up to
+your judgement anyway, aren't we? But unless your contribution was
+pretty massive, and is actually in this distribution, we aren't likely
+to agree with you about this.
+.PP
+Q: Software should be free. You have no right to ask for money to
+support this effort.
+.PP
+A: You are entitled to that opinion, but please don't raise it on the
+mailing list, as it will tend to get people excited. Please remember
+that while copying software is generally a very cheap process,
+creating it is not. The amount of work that's gone into this software
+package is quite significant, and there's plenty more work to do. If
+you happen to be in college, working toward your degree, and have no
+social life (and yes, I've been there and done that) then it can seem
+like there's no additional cost to hacking on software - after all,
+it's fun, isn't it? While this is true, it is also true that you're a
+lot better off with this software than you would have been with the
+software I wrote in college. Enough said?
+.PP
+Q: Can't I contribute work instead of software?
+.PP
+A: We'd like to encourage that to some extent, and are indeed trying to
+bring some developers into the fold, but you shouldn't expect that
+your willingness to do this translates directly into an opportunity.
+For example, you may want very much to work for [insert the name of
+your favorite commercial Linux vendor here], but unless you have the
+appropriate skills, they like you, they're willing to pay what you
+need, and they have work that's appropriate to your skills, you're not
+going to get hired there.
+.PP
+Q: I don't contribute to the Free Software Foundation - why do you rate?
+.PP
+A: You should contribute to the Free Software Foundation too!
+.PP
+Q: I don't contribute to [insert name of your local food bank here].
+Why do you rate?
+.PP
+A: If you feel bad about not contributing to the local food bank, this is
+a very easy problem to solve, and we encourage you to do so.
+.PP
+Q: Once I've contributed once, am I done?
+.PP
+A: We'd like to encourage you to contribute once a year. If you want,
+we can send you a reminder notice on the year anniversary of your
+original contribution. If you don't specifically ask for this, we
+won't force it on you. No salesperson will call. No spam will be
+sent. We definitely won't try to convince you that it's been a year
+since you last contributed when it hasn't been a year yet.
+.PP
+Q: I don't have you in my budget this year.
+.PP
+A: Fine, put us in your budget for next year!
+.PP
+Q: It's really hard to do charitable contributions at my organization.
+.PP
+A: We'd be happy to sell you a product instead. If you choose to go
+down this route, what we'l sell you is a license for some number of
+clients and a CD. Just let us know how many DHCP clients you have,
+and we'll use the following schedule to figure out how much to invoice
+you (shipping is included on orders of $100 or more). Even if you can
+do charitable contributions, you might want to use this schedule as a
+guideline for figuring out how much to donate. It is only a
+guideline, of course - if the amounts listed feel like too much or too
+little to you, do what seems appropriate.
+.PP
+.nf
+ $10k for businesses supporting >10k nodes
+ $5k for charities supporting >10k nodes
+ $2.5k for businesses supporting >1k nodes
+ $1k for charities supporting >1k nodes
+ $500 for businesses with >500 nodes
+ $250 for charities with >500 nodes
+ $200 for businesses with >150 nodes
+ $100 for charities with >150 nodes
+ $100 for businesses with <150 nodes
+ $50 for charities with <150 nodes
+ $25 for home use, client or server
+ $0.10 to $1 per client for businesses that are reselling the
+ client, depending on volume.
+.fi
+.PP
+Q: Are you nuts? I live in [insert your country name here] and the
+typical annual salary for a programmer is less than what you're asking
+me to contribute!
+.PP
+A: We leave the choice of how much to contribute up to you. Really.
+We aren't kidding.
+.PP
+Q: Can I contribute with my credit card?
+.PP
+A: Yes. The details haven't been ironed out at this writing, but if you
+send mail to dhcp-contributions@isc.org, we'll work it out. By the
+time you read this, we may have a web interface set up - if so, it
+will be linked in at http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+dhcpd.conf(5), dhcpd.leases(5), dhclient.conf(5), dhcpd(8),
+dhclient(8), RFC2132, RFC2131.
+.SH AUTHOR
+The Internet Software Consortium DHCP Distribution was written by Ted
+Lemon <mellon@isc.org> under a contract with Vixie Labs. Funding for
+this project was provided through the Internet Software Consortium.
+Information about the Internet Software Consortium can be found at
+.B http://www.isc.org/isc.
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