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The tip4commit website is vulnerable to Heartbleed: https://filippo.io/Heartbleed/#tip4commit.com Don't sign in or register or you may have more to worry about than undesired tax liabilities. EDIT: It's fixed now.
Did you tell them? EDIT: I did https://github.com/tip4commit/tip4commit/issues/147
I do not normally rant, but tip4commit and its ilk are some of the most infuriating people in the world to deal with, since they're opting other people's projects into something that has all sorts of legal/taxation consequences and think that "we have no way to remove you once you get opted in" is an acceptable answer. I'd push complaints further up to GitHub, since I'm sure something in the way this works violates t…
Those projects are in the public domain. If there are purposes that you don't want your project to be used for then forbid it in the license. When you put your contact information in the public domain and then complain about being notified when somebody has given you money, I feel like you're complaining just for the sake of complaining. Set up filter rules or don't put your contact information on the internet. If I…
This is completely wrong.
> If there are purposes that you don't want your project to be used for then forbid it in the license.
This is completely inapplicable.
> If I was denied the chance to receive a donation for a contribution I made to an open source project essentially because the "project owner" doesn't agree then I'd be very annoyed.
Start your own project.
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If a project name was trademarked, you might be able to get them for trading on that name, maybe?
Can you trademark open source project names?
This is probably the tactic that people should use for sites that do email mining and unsolicited emails. Good for them.
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> How can there be taxation consequences unless ... Tax? Perhaps not, but the OP was talking about tax and other legal consequences. These can vary wildly from country to country. My local legislation requires applying for a permit before asking for donations. If a 3rd party would add my projects to this website, I could face criminal charges and the proof of burden would be on me.
you say 'before _collecting_ donations'. just don't _collect_ if you don't want to.
I think that people who set Web services up really need to think about what territory the service is designed to operate in and which legal system(s) they have the time and resources to examine.
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Maybe contacting their hosting provider could be an additional way to approach the problem, since, from what I can tell, the messages they send to contributors are spam.
We (Django) already threatened that a while back. They still insist they will not remove projects or stop collecting donations on behalf of non-consenting projects. All they did was manually disable some of the spam coming toward our committers.
(IANAL, TINLA)
Ahh yes, the classic Bitcoiner approach of attempting to drive adoption simply by giving the damn things to people whether they want them or not.
The tip4commit website is vulnerable to Heartbleed: https://filippo.io/Heartbleed/#tip4commit.com Don't sign in or register or you may have more to worry about than undesired tax liabilities. EDIT: It's fixed now.
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> How can there be taxation consequences unless ... Tax? Perhaps not, but the OP was talking about tax and other legal consequences. These can vary wildly from country to country. My local legislation requires applying for a permit before asking for donations. If a 3rd party would add my projects to this website, I could face criminal charges and the proof of burden would be on me.
you say 'before _collecting_ donations'. just don't _collect_ if you don't want to.