donatisto
A repository of FLOSS donation options, sorted A-Z.
Feel free to create pull requests (three projects or more). You can also send them via Jabber or eMail to me.
Financing projects/organizations
Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users.
- Donate.
- Supported methods include: check, credit card, debit card, Paypal, Flattr, Bitcoin, Litecoin and others.
Open Source Initiative
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation with global scope formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community.
Software Freedom Conservancy
Software Freedom Conservancy is a not-for-profit organization that helps promote, improve, develop, and defend Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects. Conservancy provides a non-profit home and infrastructure for FLOSS projects. This allows FLOSS developers to focus on what they do best — writing and improving FLOSS for the general public — while Conservancy takes care of the projects' needs that do not relate directly to software development and documentation.
- Donate.
- Supported methods include: check, Paypal, Flattr and wire transfer.
Software Freedom Law Center
The Software Freedom Law Center provides pro-bono legal services to developers of Free, Libre, and Open Source Software.
- Donate.
- Supported methods include: check, Network for Good (U.S. only), Paypal and Flattr.
Software in the public interest
SPI is a non-profit organization which was founded to help organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software. [...]
SPI acts as a fiscal sponsor to many free and open source projects.
critical infrastructure software
- OpenSSH, LibreSSL, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD – Like the other OpenBSD sub-projects, funding is generally done via the same donation framework.
- OpenSSL – Yearly donations starting at $5000.
- GnuPG (Encryption) – credit card, Paypal, and SEPA transactions
Linux Distributions
- Arch Linux – click & pledge
- Debian – USA ePay
- TAILS (privacy-centered live system) – Wire Transfer, PayPal, Bitcoin, Freedom of the Press foundation bundle (Credit Card, PayPal, Bitcoin)
- Xubuntu - Bountysource, Unixstickers, Canonical (Paypal), time
Linux Software
- Clementine (audio player) – no money accepted
- DeaDBeef (audio player) – PayPal, Flattr
- Mozilla Firefox (web browser) – donate to Mozilla Foundation via PayPal / Credit Card, Bitcoin, Cheque, Bank Transfer
- Geany (text editor) – Paypal
- GIMP (image manipulation) – PayPal, Flattr, Bitcoin, Wire Transfer, Cheque
- InkScape (vector graphics) – Paypal, cash, cheque or international money order in US funds
- KeePassX (password management) – Flattr, PayPal
- KeePassXC (password management, spiritual successor to KeePassX) – Paypal, Flattr, Bitcoin, Dash, Patreon
- LibreOffice (powerful office suite) – Credit Card, PayPal, Bitcoin, Flattr, Wire Transfer
- LyX (WYSIWYG LaTeX editor) – PayPal
- Mumble (VoIP conference software) – Paypal, Bitcoin
- OpenShot (video editing) – PayPal
- Pidgin (instant messaging) – ???
Donation services
ToDo
- Windows / Mac FLOSS
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Linux Distributions
- Ubuntu/Canonical
- Ubuntu-based distributions (
Xubuntu, Lubuntu, ...)
- Ubuntu-based distributions (
- Slackware
Financing projects/organizations
- Linux Foundation