Given that I see calls for better support for those...

Given that I see calls for better support for those random opensource devs that happen to maintain some of the most important pieces of software on the planet: a good friend of mine is maintaining expat - possibly the most important+popular xml library out there - and he has a message in his latest changelog that you may want to read: https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_6_2/expat/Changes

Like 30 March at 20:44 | Open on mastodon.social

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hanno

corresponding blogpost: https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/expat-2-6-2-released/

30 March at 20:47 | Open on mastodon.social

Eugenia L

@hanno where can I donate though? he has no links.

30 March at 22:48 | Open on mastodon.social

Daniel Schier 🐧🍪

@eugenialoli @hanno

I can only guess why he isn’t publishing something. Below are my reasons not to accept donations.

Sebastian seems to be from Germany (like me).

As soon as you accept any kind of donations in Germany, it will make you a „forprofit Organisation“. This comes with lots of legal constraints, tax related stuff, etc. Furthermore, the mere providing of open source software is not considered charity work nor nonprofit in Germany.

31 March at 5:15 | Open on fosstodon.org