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		gravitronic on July 18, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nginx established as a company Hmm.. maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't paypal disallow non-charities from collecting donations? And they often end up freezing the account? Here's the link stating that google checkout does not allow "donations" unless you're tax-exempt: http://www.reddit.com/comments/gx7br/google_emulates_paypal_... I can't find the related news article for paypal offhand.

dotBen on July 18, 2011 [–]

Given that anyone donating is presumably using nginx somewhere would be very easy for them to restructure this as "paying a voluntary license for the use of nginx at a $ amount to be decided by the customer"

gravitronic on July 18, 2011 | [–]

They should do that and avoid the pain of a paypal frozen account.

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