Keeping a site for an open source project funded

[Shadowfire]

Since pretty much all of the major open source licenses (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc) prohibit charging for open source software, I figured I'd ask this. How other than donations would be a good way to keep an open source project funded? I am developing a Debian-based Linux distro under the GPL v2 (same license the Linux kernel uses) and I'm doing the typical donation thing once the first release of the distro is out.

I was thinking if the OS gets a mid-sized following, I could incorporate and hire a few people to sell support to companies/self-employed people, but that would be worthless for a small distro since not many would buy that.

Any suggestions?

 

[Sam]

Affiliates. You could partner with a dedicated/ vps server provider who will allow customers to easily install your OS on their servers. Then when you give them a signup they pay you a commission.