diff --git a/doc/donate.html b/doc/donate.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e0f199d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/donate.html
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
+<HTML>
+
+<HEAD>
+	<TITLE>
+	libsndfile : donate.
+	</TITLE>
+	<META NAME="Author"      CONTENT="Erik de Castro Lopo (erikd AT mega-nerd DOT com)">
+	<!-- Another version at the bottom of the page.  -->
+	<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="The libsndfile API.">
+	<META NAME="Keywords"    CONTENT="WAV AIFF AU libsndfile sound audio dsp Linux">
+	<LINK REL=StyleSheet HREF="libsndfile.css" TYPE="text/css" MEDIA="all">
+</HEAD>
+
+<BODY>
+
+<br/>
+<!-- pepper -->
+<center>
+	<IMG SRC="libsndfile.jpg" HEIGHT=98 WIDTH=367 ALT="libsndfile.jpg">
+</center>
+<!-- pepper -->
+<br/>
+
+<p>
+Dear libsndfile user,
+</p>
+<!-- pepper -->
+<p>
+This library was developed on Linux for Linux. I am not a Windows user and
+maintaining this library for Windows costs me significant amounts of time above
+and beyond the time taken to make it work on Linux and Unix-like systems.
+</p>
+<!-- pepper -->
+<p>
+I therefore ask Windows users of libsndfile to donate to ensure that libsndfile's
+support for Windows continues. As long as donations continue to flow in at a decent
+rate, I will continue to release precompiled Windows binaries in sync with the
+Linux/Unix version. If donations are poor, support for windows will fall behind.
+</p>
+<!-- pepper -->
+
+<p>
+You are free to donate any amount you chose.
+As a guideline:
+</p>
+<!-- pepper -->
+<ul>
+<li>If you are simply a user of libsndfile that would like to ensure that
+	the development of libsndfile continues, a donation of $10US would be more
+	than adequate.
+	</li>
+<li>If you are shareware author that distributes libsndfile with your app and
+	makes more than $1000 a year from your shareware, a one off donation of $50
+	would be appropriate.
+	</li>
+<li>If your company is a commercial software house that distributes one or more
+	products that ship with libsndfile, a donation of $100 every second or third
+	year would be appropriate.
+	</li>
+</ul>
+
+<!-- pepper -->
+<p>
+Donations can be made via paypal:
+</p>
+
+<br/>
+<!-- pepper -->
+<center>
+<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
+<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
+<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="2966094">
+<input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_AU/i/btn/btn_donate_LG.gif" name="submit" alt="">
+<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_AU/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
+</form>
+</center>
+<!-- pepper -->
+<br/>
+
+<!-- running total -->
+
+<p>
+Thanks and regards,
+<br/>
+Erik de Castro Lopo
+<br/>
+Main libsndfile author and maintainer
+</p>
+
+<!-- pepper -->
+
+	<img src=
+	"/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?ft=6|frgb=55;55;55|tr=0|trgb=0;0;0|wxh=15;20|md=6|dd=B|st=1|sh=1|df=libsndfile-donate.dat"
+	HEIGHT=0 WIDTH=0 ALT="">
+
+
+</BODY>
+</HTML>
