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-<!entity % p-stable "IGNORE">
+<!entity p-version "3.0.19">
+<!entity p-status "stable">
+<!entity % p-not-stable "IGNORE">
+<!entity % p-stable "INCLUDE">
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<!entity % p-doc "INCLUDE"> <!-- and we are a formal doc -->
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This file belongs into
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- $Id: faq.sgml,v 2.80 2011/08/18 11:42:50 fabiankeil Exp $
+ $Id: faq.sgml,v 2.84 2011/11/13 17:03:54 fabiankeil Exp $
Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
</subscript>
</pubdate>
-<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 2.80 2011/08/18 11:42:50 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
+<pubdate>$Id: faq.sgml,v 2.84 2011/11/13 17:03:54 fabiankeil Exp $</pubdate>
<!--
<para>
<application>Privoxy</application> is developed by unpaid volunteers
and thus our current running costs are pretty low. Nevertheless, we
- have plans that will cost money in the future. We would like to get
- this money through donations made by our users.
+ have plans that will cost money in the future. They include,
+ but aren't limited to spending money on:
+
</para>
<para>
- <application>Privoxy</application> has therefore become an associated
- project of <ulink url="http://www.spi-inc.org/about-spi/about-spi">Software
- in the Public Interest (SPI)</ulink>, which allows us to receive tax-deductible
- donations in most western countries.
+<itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Hardware to help make sure <application>Privoxy</application>
+ keeps running on platforms the developers currently can't test
+ on and can be ported to others.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Technical books to educate our developers about said platforms
+ or to improve their knowledge in general.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ More reliable hosting,
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ We would like to get this money through donations made by our users.
</para>
<para>
- We intend to use the donations to pay for our domain after transferring
- it to SPI. Our goal is to make sure there's no single point of failure
- and the bill gets paid and the site keeps running even if a some of
- the currently active developers were to suddenly disappear for a while.
+ <application>Privoxy</application> has therefore become an associated
+ project of <ulink url="http://www.spi-inc.org/about-spi/about-spi">Software
+ in the Public Interest (SPI)</ulink>, which allows us to receive donations.
+ In the United States they are tax-deductible, in a few other western countries
+ they might be tax-deductible in the future.
</para>
<para>
- We would also like to spend some money on more reliable hosting,
- on hardware to help make sure <application>Privoxy</application>
- keeps running on platforms the developers currently can't test on,
- and on technical books to educate our developers about said platforms
- or to improve their knowledge in general.
+ If you read this section before you may notice that paying for the
+ project domain privoxy.org is no longer on the list. It has been
+ transferred to SPI is sponsored by Mythic Beasts Ltd.
</para>
<para>
If you enjoy our software and feel like helping out with a donation,
please have a look at
<ulink url="http://www.spi-inc.org/donations">SPI's donation page</ulink>
- to see what the options are.
+ to see what the options are. If you have any questions regarding donations
+ please mail to either the public user mailing list or, if it's a private
+ matter, to <ulink url="mailto:fk@fabiankeil.de">Fabian Keil</ulink>
+ (Privoxy's SPI liason) directly.
</para>
</sect3>
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+Revision 2.84 2011/11/13 17:03:54 fabiankeil
+Bump entities for 3.0.18 stable
+
+Revision 2.83 2011/11/13 16:53:24 fabiankeil
+Rephrase the donations section some more
+
+Mention that the domain is now sponsored by Mythic Beasts Ltd
+and make it clear that asking questions about donations is
+possible, too.
+
+Revision 2.82 2011/11/13 16:50:34 fabiankeil
+Note that donations for Privoxy are currently only tax-deductible in the US
+
+As it turns out tax-deductible donations in a few other western
+countries are theoretically possible through partner organizations
+but aren't available out of the box.
+
+Revision 2.81 2011/09/04 11:10:12 fabiankeil
+Ditch trailing whitespace
+
Revision 2.80 2011/08/18 11:42:50 fabiankeil
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