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Liberapay almost died in 2018 when its payment processor decided to end their partnership.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://medium.com/liberapay-blog/liberapay-is-in-trouble-b58b40714d82|title=Liberapay is in trouble|date=2018-07-12}}</ref> Support for two other payment processors was added in order to replace the original one, but the way the platform works had to change.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://medium.com/liberapay-blog/liberapay-status-update-a76403f4e0|title=Liberapay status update|date=2018-10-12}}</ref>
Liberapay almost died in 2018 when its payment processor decided to end their partnership.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://medium.com/liberapay-blog/liberapay-is-in-trouble-b58b40714d82|title=Liberapay is in trouble|date=2018-07-12}}</ref> Support for two other payment processors was added in order to replace the original one, but the way the platform works had to change.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://medium.com/liberapay-blog/liberapay-status-update-a76403f4e0|title=Liberapay status update|date=2018-10-12}}</ref>


Notable projects on Liberapay include [[Archive.is]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://liberapay.com/archiveis|title=archiveis - Liberapay|archive-url=https://archive.is/20170711110938/https://liberapay.com/archiveis|archive-date=2017-07-11|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Mastodon (software)|Mastodon]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/8290620|title=Mastodon now has a team on Liberapay|date=2017-06-07}}</ref> [[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> [[Matrix (communication protocol)|Matrix]],<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><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.liberapay.com/matrixdotorg|title=Matrixdotorg - Liberapay|date=2017-09-16}}</ref> [[Battle for Wesnoth]]<ref>https://liberapay.com/Wesnoth/donate</ref> and others.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/8wvuhh/liberapay_a_nonprofit_and_opensource_recurrent/|title=reddit on linux|date=2018-07-07}}</ref>
Notable projects on Liberapay include [[Archive.is]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://liberapay.com/archiveis|title=archiveis - Liberapay|archive-url=https://archive.is/20170711110938/https://liberapay.com/archiveis|archive-date=2017-07-11|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Battle for Wesnoth]],<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.ph/Mufsd|archive-date=2020-02-28}}</ref> [[GIMP]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gimp.org/donating/#liberapay|title=GIMP - Donate|date=2020-02-28}}</ref> [[Mastodon (software)|Mastodon]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/8290620|title=Mastodon now has a team on Liberapay|date=2017-06-07}}</ref> [[Matrix (communication protocol)|Matrix]]<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> and [[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>


Liberapay shares similarities with the for-profit platform [[Patreon]], but it does not allow creators to reward their patrons like Patreon does. This difference in the nature of the transactions has tax implications, for example Patreon collects [[Value-added tax|VAT]] on all payments made from inside the [[European Union]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://patreon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205259549-How-does-VAT-work-on-Patreon-|title=How does VAT work on Patreon?|date=2018-03-25}}</ref> whereas Liberapay does not.<ref>[https://twitter.com/liberapay/status/973554555140104192 Tweet from Liberapay about VAT], 2018-03-13.</ref>
Liberapay shares similarities with the for-profit platform [[Patreon]], but it does not allow creators to reward their patrons like Patreon does. This difference in the nature of the transactions has tax implications, for example Patreon collects [[Value-added tax|VAT]] on all payments made from inside the [[European Union]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://patreon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205259549-How-does-VAT-work-on-Patreon-|title=How does VAT work on Patreon?|date=2018-03-25}}</ref> whereas Liberapay does not.<ref>[https://twitter.com/liberapay/status/973554555140104192 Tweet from Liberapay about VAT], 2018-03-13.</ref>

Revision as of 11:10, 28 February 2020

Liberapay
Type of site
Crowdfunding platform
Available in10+ languages[1]
URLliberapay.com
LaunchedFebruary 3, 2016; 8 years ago (2016-02-03)
Written inPython

Liberapay is "a non-profit organization founded in 2015 in France"[2][3] providing a platform to donate money to teams, organizations and individuals. The service does not charge a fee on donations aside from that required by its 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.[2]

Liberapay began as a European

US dollar was added after Gratipay announced that it would shut down[5], and support for 31 other currencies was added a year after that.[6]

Liberapay almost died in 2018 when its payment processor decided to end their partnership.[7] Support for two other payment processors was added in order to replace the original one, but the way the platform works had to change.[8]

Notable projects on Liberapay include

Matrix[13] and Pepper&Carrot.[14]

Liberapay shares similarities with the for-profit platform Patreon, but it does not allow creators to reward their patrons like Patreon does. 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[15] whereas Liberapay does not.[16]

References

  1. ^ Liberapay's translations on Weblate. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  2. ^ a b "Introduction - Liberapay". Archived from the original on 2017-08-21.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "Gratipay, Liberapay - Open source tipping apps struggle". P2P Foundation. 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
  5. ^ "Liberapay now supports US dollars". 2017-12-07. Archived from the original on 2018-02-09.
  6. ^ "The third year of Liberapay". 2019-02-04.
  7. ^ "Liberapay is in trouble". 2018-07-12.
  8. ^ "Liberapay status update". 2018-10-12.
  9. ^ "archiveis - Liberapay". Archived from the original on 2017-07-11.
  10. ^ "Wesnoth on Liberapay - The Battle for Wesnoth Forums". 2019-04-05. Archived from the original on 2020-02-28.
  11. ^ "GIMP - Donate". 2020-02-28.
  12. ^ "Mastodon now has a team on Liberapay". 2017-06-07.
  13. ^ "A Call to Arms: Supporting Matrix!". 2017-07-07.
  14. ^ "Pepper&Carrot is now on Liberapay". 2017-07-13.
  15. ^ "How does VAT work on Patreon?". 2018-03-25.
  16. ^ Tweet from Liberapay about VAT, 2018-03-13.

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