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Donations to The NetBSD Foundation

Why donations are important

The NetBSD Foundation is a non-profit organization that produces open source software, and has Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3) status. This means that it has no regular source of income, instead relying on generous donations from third parties.

Funding for the NetBSD Foundation comes from a variety of sources. Organizations and individuals interested in NetBSD contribute money, hardware and rack space to support important NetBSD Foundation services, and to enable developers to support new hardware platforms and peripherals.

It's important to understand that every donation matters. Without servers and rack space at colocation facilities, we would not be able to provide high-quality services such as regular builds and the various web and FTP services to our developers and users. Without donations of development hardware, we would not be able to support the huge range of platforms and peripherals we do today. Promotional work at events enables us to present our work to others and acquire new developers and users. Each of these functions is important to the ongoing health of the NetBSD Foundation.

So, whether you're a Fortune 100 company shipping NetBSD in a product, a company running your web server on NetBSD, a home user with NetBSD on your desktop, or just someone who thinks NetBSD is cool — or all four — please consider donating something to the NetBSD Foundation.

There are, of course, other ways that both individuals and organizations can contribute to The NetBSD Foundation.

Making a donation to The NetBSD Foundation

The simplest way to donate is monetarily, via PayPal. If you would prefer not to use PayPal, or would like to make other arrangements, please contact .

All donations to the NetBSD Foundation are fully tax-deductible in the US!

PayPal is essentially an online bank that allows its users to easily transfer money among each other. You do not need to have a PayPal account to use PayPal to send money to NetBSD; you can use a credit card on PayPal's site to send funds directly to the NetBSD PayPal account, or you can use funds from your own PayPal account if you have one. The PayPal address for NetBSD is . The PayPal site will guide you through all the steps you need to take to open an account and send money.

To donate using PayPal, start here:

Donation Policy

The NetBSD Foundation has a policy of acknowledging donors on their web pages (see below). After we received your donation, we will send you an acknowledgement letter, containing a confirmation section for the IRS and a small questionnaire about how you wish your entry to appear on the donor web pages.

Please note that as of 2007-03-15, links to donor URLs will be put up only for donations that exceed $50.00 USD. Normally the link to the donor URL will be established after a delay of one month.

If you have any questions about the donation process or if you want or don't want your name to be added to the list of contributors, please let us know at .

Past and ongoing contributors