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'''Liberapay''' is a platform for recurrent donations via [[subscription business model|subscriptions]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nextinpact.com/news/104027-apres-an-dactivite-liberapay-veut-etre-alternative-libre-pour-dons-recurrents.htm|title=Après un an d'activité, Liberapay veut être l'alternative libre pour les dons récurrents|date=2017-04-13|language=fr|trans-title=A year after its launch, Liberapay wants to be the open source alternative for recurrent donations|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916020622/https://www.nextinpact.com/news/104027-apres-an-dactivite-liberapay-veut-etre-alternative-libre-pour-dons-recurrents.htm|archive-date=2017-09-16}}</ref><ref name="about">{{Cite web|url=https://liberapay.com/about/|title=Introduction - Liberapay|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170821061314/https://liberapay.com/about/|archive-date=2017-08-21|url-status=live}}</ref> It is maintained by a non-profit organization, also named Liberapay, registered in [[France]].
'''Liberapay''' is a platform for recurrent donations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nextinpact.com/news/104027-apres-an-dactivite-liberapay-veut-etre-alternative-libre-pour-dons-recurrents.htm|title=Après un an d'activité, Liberapay veut être l'alternative libre pour les dons récurrents|date=2017-04-13|language=fr|trans-title=A year after its launch, Liberapay wants to be the open source alternative for recurrent donations|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916020622/https://www.nextinpact.com/news/104027-apres-an-dactivite-liberapay-veut-etre-alternative-libre-pour-dons-recurrents.htm|archive-date=2017-09-16}}</ref><ref name="about">{{Cite web|url=https://liberapay.com/about/|title=Introduction - Liberapay|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170821061314/https://liberapay.com/about/|archive-date=2017-08-21|url-status=live}}</ref> It is maintained by a non-profit organization, also named Liberapay, registered in [[France]].


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Revision as of 18:07, 18 February 2023

Liberapay
Type of site
Crowdfunding platform
Available in30+ languages[1]
URLliberapay.com
LaunchedFebruary 3, 2016; 9 years ago (2016-02-03)
Written inPython

Liberapay is a platform for recurrent donations.[2][3] It is maintained by a non-profit organization, also named Liberapay, registered in France.

Service

The service does not charge a fee on donations aside from that required by the underlying payment processors, instead financing its own activity through donations handled by the service itself in the same way as donations to third-parties are handled.[3] As of October 2020, Liberapay uses payment processors PayPal and Stripe.[4]

Unlike other crowdfunding platforms, Liberapay does not allow creators to reward their patrons. This difference in the nature of the transactions has tax implications. For example, Patreon collects VAT on all payments made from inside the European Union[5] whereas Liberapay does not.[6]

Users

Liberapay is primarily meant to fund the creation of free and open-source software, art and knowledge, but other uses are allowed.[7] Notable projects, organizations and individuals on Liberapay include:

History

Pepper&Carrot in Liberapay Lantern
Pepper&Carrot in Liberapay Is in Trouble
David Revoy, the creator of webcomic Pepper&Carrot and the illustraton "Liberapay Lantern" (left), can be supported using Liberapay. In 2018, when Mangopay withdrew its services as payment processor, Revoy created the illustration "Liberapay Is in Trouble" (right) with the title characters from the webcomic.

Started in 2015 in France, Liberapay began as a fork of the now-defunct US-based platform Gratipay.com (originally known as Gittip), which had undergone changes after facing legal issues.[30]

Initially, Liberapay's only currency was the euro, but support for the US dollar was added in December 2017, one month after Gratipay announced that it would shut down,[31] and support for 31 other currencies was added in 2018.[32]

In 2018, Liberapay had to respond to Mangopay withdrawing its services as payment processor.[33] Support for two other payment processors was added, but the way the platform works had to change.[34] In the same year Medium briefly suspended the organisation's blog account, claiming they were publishing articles about cryptocurrencies.[35]

In January 2021, Liberapay announced donations reached €8000 per week, a 150% year over year increase, with 5977 patrons and 912 creators.[36]

In 2022, Liberapay started using machine translation services to automatically complete the translations of its website.[37]

Reception

In 2018, Jason van Gumster writing for RedHat's Opensource said distinguishing factors of Liberapay were target audience, Open Source, lack of fees on payments, and non-profit status.[38] F-Droid announced support for Liberapay and integration of support for apps.[39]

In 2020, Liberapay was one of six funding platforms recommended in Voice-Overs for Podcasting: How to Develop a Career and Make a Profit, by Elaine A. Clark.[40]

References

  1. ^ Liberapay's translations on Weblate. Retrieved 2022-10-15.
  2. ^ "Après un an d'activité, Liberapay veut être l'alternative libre pour les dons récurrents" [A year after its launch, Liberapay wants to be the open source alternative for recurrent donations] (in French). 2017-04-13. Archived from the original on 2017-09-16.
  3. ^ a b "Introduction - Liberapay". Archived from the original on 2017-08-21.
  4. ^ "Payment Processors - Liberapay". en.liberapay.com. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  5. ^ "How does VAT work on Patreon?". 2018-03-25.
  6. ^ Tweet from Liberapay about VAT, 2018-03-13.
  7. ^ "Other Crowdfunding / Fundraising Services" (archived), snowdrift.coop, retrieved 24 December 2022.
  8. ^ "archiveis - Liberapay". Archived from the original on 2017-07-11.
  9. ^ "Donate-Armbian".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ "Wesnoth on Liberapay - The Battle for Wesnoth Forums". 2019-04-05. Archived from the original on 2020-02-28.
  11. ^ "BorgBackup Development", liberapay.com.
  12. ^ https://liberapay.com/iNPUTmice. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. ^ "davidrevoy", liberapay.com.
  14. ^ "Pepper&Carrot is now on Liberapay". 2017-07-13.
  15. ^ https://liberapay.com/Tad. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  16. ^ "F-Droid-Data", liberapay.com.
  17. ^ "FreeCAD", liberapay.com.
  18. ^ "GIMP", liberapay.com.
  19. ^ "GIMP - Donate". 2020-02-28.
  20. ^ "Lemmy", liberapay.com.
  21. ^ "Liberapay", liberapay.com.
  22. ^ "LiberapayOrg", liberapay.com.
  23. ^ "magit", liberapay.com.
  24. ^ "A Call to Arms: Supporting Matrix!". 2017-07-07.
  25. ^ "microG", liberapay.com.
  26. ^ "Mumble VoIP", liberapay.com.
  27. ^ "PipeWire Team", liberapay.com.
  28. ^ "Remmina — Remote Desktop client for Linux, macOS, and WSL2.", liberapay.com.
  29. ^ "Riseup", liberapay.com.
  30. ^ "Gratipay, Liberapay - Open source tipping apps struggle". P2P Foundation. 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
  31. ^ "Liberapay now supports US dollars". 2017-12-07. Archived from the original on 2018-02-09.
  32. ^ "The third year of Liberapay". 2019-02-04.
  33. ^ "Liberapay is in trouble". 2018-07-12.
  34. ^ "Liberapay status update". 2018-10-12.
  35. ^ Sanders, James (March 26, 2018). "Why passage of SESTA/FOSTA is leading some cloud providers to terminate users". TechRepublic. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  36. ^ Liberapay (January 6, 2021). "FDNitter". Nitter.fdn.fr. Retrieved February 18, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  37. ^ Liberapay on Twitter: “Thanks to machine translations, Liberapay is now fully available in 34 languages”, 2022-09-16.
  38. ^ "Liberapay: How creators of open content get funded | Opensource.com". opensource.com. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  39. ^ "Liberapay, a fully free Donation Platform | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository". f-droid.org. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  40. ^ Clark, Elaine A. (2020-11-17). Voice-Overs for Podcasting: How to Develop a Career and Make a Profit. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-62153-747-2.


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