How Does Audacity Raise Money?
Audacity raises money via donations, sponsorships, product sales through Audacity Store and advertisements on our web pages. As of March 2007, SourceForge.net, which hosts the Audacity site and downloads, is allowing us to also post advertisements, in an innovative program whereby we split the revenues. Thank you, SourceForge.net! Income to Audacity is not distributed among previous contributors to Audacity. There are too many people and it would be difficult to do so fairly. Also, nobody contributed code to Audacity expecting money in return. Audacity is developed by volunteers, working in our spare time. Audacity is not shareware, and we do not expect to make any money from it. Rather, the team of Audacity lead developers will spend the money on items and services that benefit the project as a whole. Money that comes in to the project helps us pay for bandwidth and web hosting, development tools, and audio hardware. In the past we used funds from donations to purchase the Audacity tr
