[bombcar]

To defend Apple here - if they allowed “donations” with only a 5% fee you’d have thousands of developers offing “free premium” to “donators”.

What Apple needs is a curated system to support open source development for apps - for example, after proving that you really are a non-profit (think Mozilla foundation) Apple could still charge the 30% but then rebate 20% back as a donation from Apple itself. Win/win.

[vaduz]

Apple already has such a process - you may not agree with the criteria, but they do outline it quite clearly:

3.2 Other Business Model Issues [..] (vi) Approved nonprofits may fundraise directly within their own apps or third-party apps, provided those fundraising campaigns adhere to all App Review Guidelines and offer Apple Pay support. These apps must disclose how the funds will be used, abide by all required local and federal laws, and ensure appropriate tax receipts are available to donors. Additional information shall be provided to App Review upon request. Nonprofit platforms that connect donors to other nonprofits must ensure that every nonprofit listed in the app has also gone through the nonprofit approval process. Learn more about becoming an approved nonprofit. [https://developer.apple.com/apple-pay/nonprofits/]

Mozilla Foundation would be fine, but WireGuard is in hot mess as the "Donation" is not actually going to a non-profit organisation - it has in fact taken steps to avoid identifying _who_ the money is going to.

[bombcar]

That hot mess is interesting (and obviously never brought up by the Apple is Evil crowd) - if you don't want to identify the destination of funds just don't call it a "Donate" button and let Apple take their cut. 70% of something is still more than 100% of zero.