[Wikimedia-l] Only paid toolserver admins accepted by WMF?

[Tim Landscheidt]

Hi,

WMDE's Silke wrote at
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.toolserver/5674
regarding the promotion of additional toolserver roots:

| DaB is right: WMF as the database owner accepts only paid roots.
| [...]

Is that statement correct, and what is WMF's rationale for
it?

Tim