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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.
The Linux Foundation
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/donate
Europe:
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.
Mozilla Foundation
Tor Project
Creators of tor, Tor-Browser, OnionShare, Orbot and more
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
- Gentoo
- KDE Neon (KDE directly)
- Kubuntu
- Linux Mint
- TAILS (privacy-centered live system) – Wire Transfer, PayPal, Bitcoin, Freedom of the Press foundation bundle (Credit Card, PayPal, Bitcoin)
- QubesOS
- Whonix
- Xubuntu - Bountysource, Unixstickers, Canonical (Paypal), time
Android:
- CalyxOS
- DivestOS
- GrapheneOS (they also maintain the hardened kernel and malloc)
- IodeOS
- LineageOS ([Paypal}(https://paypal.me/LineageOS)) (Patreon)
Unix-like:
Hardware Donations:
- Fedora Project
- OpenSuse ([Send them a mail](mailto:donations@opensuse.org?subject=Hardware Donations)
Linux Desktops
Linux Software
- Ardour DAW
- Arkenfox user.js (Firefox hardening) (no donations yet)
- Audacity No money donations anymore
- BlissOS / Waydroid
- Bottles (Easy Wine Configuration)
- Calibre E-Book Manager (Javascript button on the top right)
- Clementine (audio player) – no money accepted
- Cryptomator
- Cryptsetup / LUKS (no Donation possible currently)
- DeaDBeef (audio player) – PayPal, Flattr
- EasyEffects Liberapay Patreon PayPal
- Mozilla Firefox Donation to Mozilla Foundation (indirectly to Firefox, as the Corporation is managing it)
- FreeTube Liberapay BTC Monero XMR
- Freeplane Mindmap Tool (No money donations but help in Forums wanted)
- 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
- JamesDSP for Linux KoFi PayPal
- KeePassX (password management) – Flattr, PayPal
- KeePassXC (password management, spiritual successor to KeePassX) – Paypal, Flattr, Bitcoin, Dash, Patreon
- Krita
- LibreOffice (powerful office suite) – Credit Card, PayPal, Bitcoin, Flattr, Wire Transfer
- Librewolf (no donations???)
- Lynis Security Audit Tool (FOSS, enterprise solutions available)
- LyX (WYSIWYG LaTeX editor) – PayPal
- Mumble (VoIP conference software) – Paypal, Bitcoin
- Monero
- OBS
- GNU Octave
- OpenAndroidInstaller Liberapay
- OpenShot (video editing) – PayPal
- OpenSnitch
- Pidgin (instant messaging) – ???
- Piper TTS (no Donations available)
- Pinta (no donations)
- qBittorrent
- QEMU (Paypal)
- QGis
- Remmina Remote Desktop
- RustDesk Github Sponsors KoFi
- Signal
- SimpleX Chat
- StirlingPDF (PDF-Editor with Web-Frontend) Github Sponsors Paypal
- Syncthing
- Tenacity (Audacity Fork) (no money donations yet)
- [The Document Foundation (Libreoffice)[https://libreoffice.org/donate]
- Thunderbird
- Typst Markup Language in Rust
For Companies:
Android Software
Repositories
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Izzysoft (no Donation possibl
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Mobilsicher (they host a repo with "ethical" critical proprietary software and are active)
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Anki (Company, no Donations but paying the iOS App or help in the Forum helps)
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Magisk (WARNING many fake websites! No Donations available)
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OSMAnd Android navigation (no donations but purchases)
Online Software / Services
- CryptPad (Service and Software)
- Nextcloud (Help wanted, no donations)
- i2p Invisible Internet Protocol (They have a hall of fame but no donation way to be found?)
- Lemmy
- Leon Tiekötter
- Liberenet Liberapay
- RiseUp
- Tiekötter (He hosts several awesome projects like SearX)
Open Hardware / Open Firmware
- 3mdeb (Company, no donations but buying their Coreboot hardware helps)
- Coreboot
- Dasharo (no donations but purchases of Hardware)
- Libreboot Patreon
- MrChromeBox (Coreboot for Chromebooks)
- NovaCustom (Company)
- Starlabs Systems
- Skulls (preconfigured Coreboot) Github Sponsors
- Heads OpenCollective Github Sponsors
Donation services
ToDo
- Windows / Mac FLOSS
- get more contributors
- advertise!
Linux Distributions
- Ubuntu/Canonical
- Ubuntu-based distributions (
Xubuntu, Lubuntu, ...)
- Ubuntu-based distributions (
- Slackware