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#+TITLE: GnuPG - Donate
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* GnuPG used to ask for your support to help protect online privacy
Activists, journalists, lawyers, and many others rely on GnuPG to
protect their communication. And, nearly all free software-based
operating systems (which are used by more than two-thirds of the
servers running the Internet) rely on GnuPG to verify the integrity
of system updates.
GnuPG development was mainly financed by donations. Aside of the
large donors Linux Foundation, Stripe, Facebook, and First Look
Media, we received a lot of individual donations. Our fundraising
[[file:camp2017.org][campaign]] in 2017 also raised about 5000 Euro in monthly recurring
donations.
*Many thanks to all supporters*
Fortunately, and this is still not common with free software, we
have now established a way of financing the development while
keeping all our software free and freely available for everyone.
Our model is similar to the way RedHat manages RHEL and Fedora:
Except for the actual binary of the MSI installer for Windows and
client specific configuration files, all the software is available
under the GNU GPL and other Open Source licenses. Thus customers
may even build and distribute their own version of the software as
long as they do not use our trademark /GnuPG VS-Desktop^{\reg}/.
Those with *SEPA donations, please cancel them and redirect* your
funds to other projects which are more in need of financial support.
The donations done via Stripe or PayPal have already been canceled.
All you supporters greatly helped us to keep GnuPG alive and to
finally setup a sustainable development model. Stay tuned for a
somewhat longer writeup on this.
*Thanks.*
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