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Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany
(www.openpetition.de)
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this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2025
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Monetary gains, mainly.
You can make tax write-offs for work in an e.V. and also donations. Open source development would then be kind of state sponsored which is nice.