LuaJIT is open source software and depends on your contributions! This may be in the form of bug reports, bug fixes and patches — see the status page for details. Another option is to financially support the project through corporate sponsorship.
How to Become a Sponsor
Sponsorship is open to all companies worldwide. For various legal and administrative reasons I cannot accept funds from individuals. The basic idea is that your company finances the work on a particular feature of LuaJIT. Everyone gets a proper invoice, tax receipt, Rechnung or whatever it's called in your country. This can usually be deducted as a business expense if it's directly related to the needs of your business (but check with your tax advisor first).
In exchange for sponsoring the work on a feature, it's incorporated into LuaJIT and is available as open source under the same liberal license. Thus you get your favorite missing feature and everyone benefits, too. Some features need a lot of work and probably cannot be financed by one company alone (e.g. the x64 port). The intention of this page is to gather all interested parties to contribute to a sponsorship program.
To arrange for contracting me to work on a particular feature, please contact me under my business address:
Sponsorship for the PowerPC port of LuaJIT
A corporate sponsor who wishes to remain anonymous, has sponsored the port of LuaJIT to PowerPC in August 2010. In the first phase this will be a port of the hand-optimized LuaJIT interpreter to the FreeScale e500v2 cores, which are popular in embedded applications.
Work on the port is still in progress — you can follow it in the git repository.
Please note that the e500v2 has a different FPU than most other PowerPC CPUs. This port will not run on other PPC-based machines. A port of the JIT compiler and/or a port to other PowerPC CPUs may follow later.
Sponsorship for the x64 port of LuaJIT
The goal of this sponsorship campaign was to raise € 20,000 for the x64 port of LuaJIT 2.0. To jump-start sponsorship of LuaJIT, Athena Capital Research has provided an initial contribution of € 5,000 in December 2009.
As part of their commitment to the open source community, Athena Capital Research has offered to provide up to € 7,000 of matching funds. All funds offered through corporate sponsorship have been matched one-to-one. Other funds have been matched two-to-one.
The x64 sponsorship goal was reached in January 2010 and a total of € 20,167 was raised! The x64 port is complete by now and available from the download page.
Many thanks to all sponsors for supporting LuaJIT!
| Sponsor Name | Amount | Matched | Date |
| Athena Capital Research LLC | € 5,000 | 2009-12-07 | |
| (Identity withheld) via Athena CR | $ 100 | + $ 200 | 2009-12-10 |
| bottom up system design GmbH | € 100 | + € 100 | 2009-12-17 |
| Google Inc. | € 8,000 | + € 6,767 | 2010-01-20 |
| € 20,167 total | € 13,167 | + € 7,000 |
Note: All accounting is performed in €. Foreign currencies are converted to € on the day of receipt using the actual conversion rate minus banking fees and taxes (if applicable).
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