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>>Philip+(OP)
What is the point? What benefits does an Ehrenamt even bring (fyi I have one) and why would an activity as broad as open source work qualify? Many open source projects are done without any good for the public, why should such a developer get such a title?

If you want any of this, why don't you found a Verein and have open source activities as the purpose?

All in all I an very much against this. Mostly because I think Ehrenämter, as they exist now, are pretty stupid and pointless and because I strongly believe the state should not get involved with this at all.

>>consta+V4
For example, this would allow an open source project to split donations between contributors in a legal way

>>lionko+oj
I don't think that is true at all. Do you have any evidence for this? What about not having an Ehrenamt makes it illegal to split donations?

If you want to have legal protections and a proper governance structure you would found a Verein. Codeberg has a Verein with Gemeinnützigkeit, which seems a superior, already established, way to accomplish this.