Is D not-for-profit or not?!

[Heywood Floyd]

Jeff Nowakowski Wrote:

> There's nothing wrong with being in it for money, but it would be nice 
> to know up front and in what manner.


I've been meaning to ask, and I'll just take this oppurtunity, and it relates to what Jeff just said:

If one would like to donate money to D, how would one do that?
Would it even make any sense? Or be needed?

And this naturally raises the question: Who/what owns D? Is it a non-profit, a group of people, or a business? And regardless of who owns D, is there any D-only organisation that one could support, financially? I'm not demanding an answer, I'm just sharing my thoughts.

I mean, it would feel weird to donate money to Digital Mars, a for-profit company, that does all kinds of things, including C++, right? If I was to feel confident in donating it would have to be to some sort of formally founded non-profit legal body with some sort of constitution like "to further the development of D" or something. I don't know how these things work. I guess right now D is too small and the legal cost of just maintaining such an organisation would surpass any donations anyway.


BR
/HF