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by phkamp 3567 days ago
Varnish Cache Author here.

The Varnish Cache FOSS project and Varnish Software the company are two entirely different things.

By and large, the Varnish Cache FOSS project is me, and I am not employed by Varnish Software: I have my own one-man company where I "make computers to do weird things".

The time I spend on Varnish Cache is funded by "The Varnish Moral License":

http://phk.freebsd.dk/VML/index.html

(See also: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2636165)

Varnish Software is one of the handful of companies who pay via the VML to keep me working on Varnish.

Varnish Software has also supported the project in many other ways as well, from running the project server to donating manpower and source code.

Some of these things are being scaled down, for instance the project server had become the square peg in their round internal IT systems, so I have been migrating that off to a server kindly sponsored by RootBSD.

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Thanks so much for replying. I did notice the Moral License and was confused as to how it works. I will attempt to get some high profile users I know to help pay for some continued development.