Software:Liberapay
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Type of site | Crowdfunding platform |
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| Available in | 10+ languages[1] |
| Website | liberapay |
| Launched | February 3, 2016 |
| Written in | Python |
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 fork of the now-defunct United States -based platform Gratipay.com, which had undergone changes after facing legal issues.[4] Initially Liberapay's only currency was the Euro, but support for the US dollar was added after Gratipay announced that it would shut down.[5]
Notable projects on Liberapay include Archive.is[6], Mastodon[7], Pepper&Carrot[8] and Matrix[9][10].
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[11] whereas Liberapay does not[12].
References
- ↑ Liberapay's translations on Weblate. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Introduction - Liberapay". https://liberapay.com/about/.
- ↑ "Après un an d'activité, Liberapay veut être l'alternative libre pour les dons récurrents" (in French). 2017-04-13. https://www.nextinpact.com/news/104027-apres-an-dactivite-liberapay-veut-etre-alternative-libre-pour-dons-recurrents.htm.
- ↑ "Gratipay, Liberapay - Open source tipping apps struggle" (in en-US). P2P Foundation. 2016-03-11. https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/gratipay-liberapay-open-source-tipping/2016/03/11.
- ↑ "Liberapay now supports US dollars". 2017-12-07. https://medium.com/liberapay-blog/liberapay-now-supports-us-dollars-f9484e3008f8.
- ↑ "archiveis - Liberapay". https://liberapay.com/archiveis.
- ↑ "Mastodon now has a team on Liberapay". 2017-06-07. https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/8290620.
- ↑ "Pepper&Carrot is now on Liberapay". 2017-07-13. https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article418/peppercarrot-is-now-on-liberapay.
- ↑ "A Call to Arms: Supporting Matrix!". 2017-07-07. https://matrix.org/blog/2017/07/07/a-call-to-arms-supporting-matrix.
- ↑ "Matrixdotorg - Liberapay". 2017-09-16. https://en.liberapay.com/matrixdotorg.
- ↑ "How does VAT work on Patreon?". 2018-03-25. https://patreon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205259549-How-does-VAT-work-on-Patreon-.
- ↑ Tweet from Liberapay about VAT, 2018-03-13.
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