FAQ: some actually sometimes get paid...

  1.6 What do you get for making curl?

  Project cURL is entirely free and open. No person gets paid for developing

  (lib)curl on full or even part time. We do this voluntarily on our spare

  time. Occasionally companies pay individual developers to work on curl, but

  that's up to each company and developer. It is not controlled by nor

  supervised in any way by the project.

  curl on full time. We do this voluntarily, mostly on spare time.

  Occasionally companies pay individual developers to work on curl, but that's

  up to each company and developer. It is not controlled by nor supervised in

  any way by the project.

  We still get help from companies. Haxx provides web site, bandwidth, mailing

  lists etc, sourceforge.net hosts project services we take advantage from,