Linux Foundation to host Let's Encrypt

In one sense it's a choice by LE, but it's also about what the IRS will accept. These statuses do have descriptions and qualifications you need to meet.

There have also been some well-documented problems recently with free software projects becoming 501(c)3s, which suggests that the IRS is scrutinizing such applications pretty closely.

Perhaps it was decided that LE's activity didn't really fit in c(3).

Gerv