Include verification of financial sponsors of major FOSS groups

[ShaneCurcuru]

A good start on corporations that provide measurable financial support to #opensource is to review sponsor pages for the major FOSS 501C3 organizations.

https://www.debian.org/partners/
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donors/
https://www.djangoproject.com/fundraising/
https://opensource.org/sponsors
https://www.joomla.org/current-sponsors.html
https://sfconservancy.org/sponsors/
https://plone.org/sponsors
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Acknowledgements
https://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html
https://www.drupal.org/association/supporters/partners

A simple list of every company that somehow supports open source will include... everyone in the technology world. Quantifying what organizations appear on a list like this is important.
Good luck!

[svaksha]

My personal definition is to check if the company, ...

• releases (develops and maintains) software under a free software license,
• does not release cripple-ware under the name of FOSS by keeping the juicy bits closed under a paywall <-- also applies (is related) to the dual license model some firms use.
• invests and maintains a community ecosystem and respects the volunteer contributions (ranging from code to tech docs).

The above checklist does not apply to organisations like Debian that are largely volunteer run.

Also what about companies (ex. Intel) who pay dev's to work on the kernel - its another form of FOSS although not directly visible like, say, Ubuntu.

[kof]

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