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.

• Donate, Flattr

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.

• Donate via click & pledge to SPI 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

• Flattr
• Liberapay

ToDo

• Windows / Mac FLOSS
• get more contributors
  • advertise!

Linux Distributions

• Ubuntu/Canonical
  • Ubuntu-based distributions (~~Xubuntu~~, Lubuntu, ...)
• Slackware

Financing projects/organizations

• Linux Foundation