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User:Changaco As I already said, I believe this to be a non-controversial change and I am mostly ambivalent about it. However one editor on the talk page deems that liberapay.com links are better: "... Liberapay in turn links to the respective Github repos as a verification of that accounts authenticity."; perhaps this does offer a bit stronger verification because verifies the claim on both ends. It's best to form a consensus on this.
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* [[Armbian]] (software to build other software)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.armbian.com/donate/|title=Donate-Armbian|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Armbian]] (software to build other software)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.armbian.com/donate/|title=Donate-Armbian|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[Battle for Wesnoth]]'' (video game)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=49668|title=Wesnoth on Liberapay - The Battle for Wesnoth Forums|date=2019-04-05|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200228105733/https://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=49668|archive-date=2020-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[Battle for Wesnoth]]'' (video game)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=49668|title=Wesnoth on Liberapay - The Battle for Wesnoth Forums|date=2019-04-05|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200228105733/https://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=49668|archive-date=2020-02-28}}</ref>
* [[Borg (backup software)|Borg]] (backup software)<ref>[https://www.borgbackup.org/support/fund.html BorgBackup's funding page]</ref>
* [[Borg (backup software)|Borg]] (backup software)<ref>"[https://liberapay.com/borgbackup/ BorgBackup Development]", liberapay.com.</ref>
* [[Conversations (software)|Conversations]] (instant messaging software)<ref>[https://conversations.im/#donate Conversations' home page]</ref>
* [[Conversations (software)|Conversations]] (instant messaging software)<ref>"[https://liberapay.com/iNPUTmice iNPUTmice]", liberapay.com.</ref>
* [[David Revoy]] (creator of the webcomic ''[[Pepper&Carrot]]'')<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article418/peppercarrot-is-now-on-liberapay|title=Pepper&Carrot is now on Liberapay|date=2017-07-13}}</ref>
* [[David Revoy]] (creator of the webcomic ''[[Pepper&Carrot]]'')<ref>"[https://liberapay.com/davidrevoy/ davidrevoy]", liberapay.com.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article418/peppercarrot-is-now-on-liberapay|title=Pepper&Carrot is now on Liberapay|date=2017-07-13}}</ref>
* [[DivestOS]] (mobile operating system)<ref>[https://liberapay.com/Tad Liberapay account of "Tad", creator of DivestOS]</ref>
* [[DivestOS]] (mobile operating system)<ref>"[https://liberapay.com/Tad Tad]", liberapay.com.</ref>
* [[F-Droid]] (app store)<ref>[https://f-droid.org/en/donate/ F-Droid's donations page]</ref>
* [[F-Droid]] (software installer)<ref>"[https://liberapay.com/F-Droid-Data/ F-Droid-Data]", liberapay.com.</ref>
* [[FreeCAD]] (design and modeling software)<ref>[https://wiki.freecad.org/Donate FreeCAD Documentation]</ref>
* [[FreeCAD]] (design and modeling software)<ref>"[https://liberapay.com/FreeCAD/ FreeCAD]", liberapay.com.</ref>
* [[GIMP]] (image editing software)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gimp.org/donating/#liberapay|title=GIMP - Donate|date=2020-02-28}}</ref>
* [[GIMP]] (image editing software)<ref>"[https://liberapay.com/GIMP/ GIMP]", liberapay.com.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gimp.org/donating/#liberapay|title=GIMP - Donate|date=2020-02-28}}</ref>
* [[Lemmy (software)|Lemmy]] (social news software)<ref>[https://join-lemmy.org/donate Lemmy's donations page]</ref>
* [[Lemmy (software)|Lemmy]] (social news software)<ref>"[https://liberapay.com/Lemmy/ Lemmy]", liberapay.com.</ref>
* Liberapay itself, using two distinct accounts<ref>The [https://liberapay.com/Liberapay/ Liberapay team account] which funds the work on the Liberapay project, and the [https://liberapay.com/LiberapayOrg/ LiberapayOrg account] which funds its expenses.</ref>
* Liberapay itself, using two distinct accounts<ref>"[https://liberapay.com/Liberapay/ Liberapay]", liberapay.com.</ref><ref>"[https://liberapay.com/LiberapayOrg/ LiberapayOrg]", liberapay.com.</ref>
* [[Magit]] (software for version control)<ref>[https://magit.vc/donate/ Magit's donations page]</ref>
* [[Magit]] (software for version control)<ref>"[https://liberapay.com/magit/ magit]", liberapay.com.</ref>
* [[Matrix (communication protocol)|Matrix]] (instant messaging protocol)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://matrix.org/blog/2017/07/07/a-call-to-arms-supporting-matrix|title=A Call to Arms: Supporting Matrix!|date=2017-07-07}}</ref>
* [[Matrix (communication protocol)|Matrix]] (instant messaging protocol)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://matrix.org/blog/2017/07/07/a-call-to-arms-supporting-matrix|title=A Call to Arms: Supporting Matrix!|date=2017-07-07}}</ref>
* [[microG]] (replacement for proprietary Google software)<ref>[https://liberapay.com/microG/ microG's Liberapay account]</ref>
* [[microG]] (replacement for proprietary Google software)<ref>"[https://liberapay.com/microG/ microG]", liberapay.com.</ref>
* [[Mumble (software)|Mumble]] (voice chat software)<ref>[https://liberapay.com/mumble/ Mumble's Liberapay account]</ref>
* [[Mumble (software)|Mumble]] (voice chat software)<ref>"[https://liberapay.com/mumble/ Mumble VoIP]", liberapay.com.</ref>
* [[PipeWire]] (software to handle media streams on Linux)<ref>[https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/blob/master/README.md#contributing PipeWire's README file]</ref>
* [[PipeWire]] (software to handle media streams on Linux)<ref>"[https://liberapay.com/PipeWire/ PipeWire Team]", liberapay.com.</ref>
* [[Remmina]] (remote desktop software)<ref>[https://remmina.org/donations/ Remmina's donations page]</ref>
* [[Remmina]] (remote desktop software)<ref>"[https://liberapay.com/Remmina/ Remmina — Remote Desktop client for Linux, macOS, and WSL2.]", liberapay.com.</ref>
* [[Riseup]] (provider of various online services, including a VPN)<ref>[https://riseup.net/en/donate Riseup's donations page]</ref>
* [[Riseup]] (provider of various online services, including a VPN)<ref>"[https://liberapay.com/riseup/ Riseup]", liberapay.com.</ref>
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Revision as of 11:44, 20 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 of the same name, registered in France in 2015. The platform is primarily aimed at funding free and open-source software, art and knowledge, but other uses are allowed.[4]

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][5] As of October 2020, Liberapay uses payment processors PayPal and Stripe.[6][7]

Liberapay has been compared to Patreon.[8] 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[9] whereas Liberapay does not.[10]

Users

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.[33] At the end of that year, the operators of the platform established a nonprofit organization under the 1901 law of associations.[34]

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,[35] and support for 31 other currencies was added in 2018.[36]

In 2018, Liberapay had to respond to Mangopay withdrawing its services as payment processor.[37][38] Support for two other payment processors was added, but the way the platform works had to change.[39] In the same year Medium briefly suspended the organisation's blog account, claiming they were publishing articles about cryptocurrencies.[40]

In January 2021, Liberapay announced donations reached €8000 per week, a 150% year over year increase, with 5977 patrons and 912 creators.[41]

In 2022, Liberapay started using machine translation services to automatically complete the translations of its website.[42]

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.[43] F-Droid announced support for Liberapay and integration of support for apps.[44]

Liberapay was one of six funding platforms recommended by Elaine A. Clark in her 2020 book Voice-Overs for Podcasting: How to Develop a Career and Make a Profit.[45]

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. ^ "Other Crowdfunding / Fundraising Services" (archived), snowdrift.coop, retrieved 24 December 2022.
  5. ^ "Patreon's loss is Liberapay's gain". Linux Format. No. 233. Feb 2018. p. 7. ProQuest 2051733417 – via The Wikipedia Library.
  6. ^ "Payment Processors - Liberapay". en.liberapay.com. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  7. ^ "Liberapay's back". Linux Format. No. 242. Oct 2018. p. 8. ProQuest 2114610316 – via The Wikipedia Library.
  8. ^ Irzik, Emrah (2019-06-01). "Forms of Remuneration for Free Software Production: A Reducible Complexity". Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia. 64 (1): 109–126. doi:10.2478/subbs-2019-0005. ISSN 2066-0464. ProQuest 2272725732 – via The Wikipedia Library.
  9. ^ "How does VAT work on Patreon?". 2018-03-25.
  10. ^ Tweet from Liberapay about VAT, 2018-03-13.
  11. ^ "archiveis - Liberapay". Archived from the original on 2017-07-11.
  12. ^ "Donate-Armbian".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. ^ "Wesnoth on Liberapay - The Battle for Wesnoth Forums". 2019-04-05. Archived from the original on 2020-02-28.
  14. ^ "BorgBackup Development", liberapay.com.
  15. ^ "iNPUTmice", liberapay.com.
  16. ^ "davidrevoy", liberapay.com.
  17. ^ "Pepper&Carrot is now on Liberapay". 2017-07-13.
  18. ^ "Tad", liberapay.com.
  19. ^ "F-Droid-Data", liberapay.com.
  20. ^ "FreeCAD", liberapay.com.
  21. ^ "GIMP", liberapay.com.
  22. ^ "GIMP - Donate". 2020-02-28.
  23. ^ "Lemmy", liberapay.com.
  24. ^ "Liberapay", liberapay.com.
  25. ^ "LiberapayOrg", liberapay.com.
  26. ^ "magit", liberapay.com.
  27. ^ "A Call to Arms: Supporting Matrix!". 2017-07-07.
  28. ^ "microG", liberapay.com.
  29. ^ "Mumble VoIP", liberapay.com.
  30. ^ "PipeWire Team", liberapay.com.
  31. ^ "Remmina — Remote Desktop client for Linux, macOS, and WSL2.", liberapay.com.
  32. ^ "Riseup", liberapay.com.
  33. ^ "Gratipay, Liberapay - Open source tipping apps struggle". P2P Foundation. 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
  34. ^ "Annonce JOAFE n°157 de la parution n°20160002 du 9 janvier 2016" [OJACF announcement No.157 of publication No. 20160002 of January 9, 2016]. Official Journal of Associations & Corporate Foundations (in French). Retrieved 2023-02-19.
  35. ^ "Liberapay now supports US dollars". 2017-12-07. Archived from the original on 2018-02-09.
  36. ^ "The third year of Liberapay". 2019-02-04.
  37. ^ "Are we in the middle of an open source funding crisis?". Linux Format. No. 241 (sampler). 2018-08-21. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-02-18 – via Issuu.
  38. ^ "Liberapay is in trouble". 2018-07-12.
  39. ^ "Liberapay status update". 2018-10-12.
  40. ^ Sanders, James (March 26, 2018). "Why passage of SESTA/FOSTA is leading some cloud providers to terminate users". TechRepublic. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  41. ^ Liberapay (January 6, 2021). "FDNitter". Nitter.fdn.fr. Retrieved February 18, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  42. ^ Liberapay on Twitter: “Thanks to machine translations, Liberapay is now fully available in 34 languages”, 2022-09-16.
  43. ^ "Liberapay: How creators of open content get funded | Opensource.com". opensource.com. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  44. ^ "Liberapay, a fully free Donation Platform | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository". f-droid.org. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  45. ^ 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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