I won't reply you about the payment. A LimeWire crew would better replyto you privately.

I contribute to LimeWire as a free open-source contributer, managing most of the work with candidate translators, validating their input, testing them in LimeWire, helping LimeWire for beta-tests, or helping with proposed optimizations or corrections.

I'm not paid to do that, but I have no contractual obligation with LimeWire, but just need to respect its working etiquette. For these reasons, Limewire has granted to me a limited access to their development platform, and I received a couple of checks and some goodies as a way thank me for my past contributions.

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