Foundation Charter

The Free Pascal and Lazarus foundation is a non-profit organization whose goal it is to promote Free Pascal and Lazarus programming. It also acts as a sponsor for Free Pascal and Lazarus development: it attempts to raise funds and sponsors specific features in the Lazarus and Free Pascal projects.

It does not own the Free Pascal or Lazarus code base, and the inclusion of new features is always subject to the approval of the Free Pascal or Lazarus teams.

1. What is the purpose of the foundation.

The objectives of the Lazarus Foundation shall be to:

1. Promote the usage of the open source Lazarus IDE (Integrated development environment) to developers, the open-source community, education and commercial users via Trade Fairs, the Internet and print mediums.

2. Support and advance the development of the open source Lazarus IDE by accepting and managing funds raised by fees, subscriptions, donations, sponsorship, registrations and other means.

3 Disburse such funds by a) grants and/or contracts to advance the development effort b) in promotion activities

3. Encourage cooperation and affiliation with individuals, other non-profit organisations and commercial companies involved in, or planning to become involved in the development, support and promotion of Lazarus software projects and associated products and activities.