It is a legal structure that enables open-source developers to earn a fair share for their contributions to the development of new software. It works with three simple rules.
It is for the benefit of people in the free world and is sponsored by Clocked S.O.
Every April, an organization becomes compliant with non-profit, open-source standards for the next year if it publishes an annual financial report proven to be audited by a certified accountant. According to the Crowdfunding Change Principle, the financial report must clearly state how eventual profits will be used: to keep the organization operational, reduce prices, or develop products. The full source code of the previous production version of the software must be made available to developers.
Non-profit open-source organizations may use proprietary libraries if there is no license cost chain mechanism.
The world is constantly changing, so software must adapt to these changes in order to remain safe and reliable. Therefore, free software inevitably becomes outdated.
Similarly, when people die, their accounts should be terminated as well.
For these reasons, a keep-alive fee is necessary for all software. It's the only way to ensure that developers update your software, and it ensures that updates will stop when you are no longer using the software or are no longer with us.
Put your money where your mouth is. If you want to see a change, submit a change request and help find the funding to implement it. Every nonprofit open-source project has a platform for submitting and funding changes.