The Software Freedom Law Center has announced the launch of the Software Freedom Conservancy, meant to provide free services to free software projects. "The Software Freedom Conservancy will be a fiscal sponsor for FOSS projects by providing free financial and administrative services to its members. It will provide individual developers protection from personal liability for their projects and will seek to provide participating projects with tax-exempt status, allowing them to receive tax deductible donations. The Conservancy will file a single tax return that covers each of the member's projects and will handle other corporate and tax related issues on behalf of its members." Initial members include Wine and Busybox.

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