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LVFS Introducing Fair-Use Quota: Asking Major Vendors To Pay Or Contribute Code
The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) is rolling out a 'fair use' quota where they will be asking the major hardware vendors (OEMs) to sponsor the project or contribute developer resources for the biggest users that rely on LVFS/Fwupd for serving system and device firmware to customers.
Making LVFS/Fwupd possible has been Red Hat employing the lead developer Richard Hughes while the Linux Foundation has most recently been covering the hosting costs of LVFS. As an alternative to the $100K USD annual contribution, allocating one full time software engineer to work on LVFS/Fwupd is also permitted. More details on the planned fair-use quota policy for LVFS/Fwupd moving forward can be found via this blog post by lead developer Richard Hughes.
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