Manjaro Linux has officially registered Manjaro Project e.V. as a non-profit organization in Germany, establishing a distinct legal entity separate from the commercial Manjaro GmbH & Co.
KG.
The move follows the March Manjaro 2.0 Manifesto, which addressed project governance and infrastructure control.
The new body has seven founding members: Dennis ten Hoove, Frank Vandermeiren, Jonas Strassel, Mark Wagie, Roman Gilg, Simon Büeler and Stefano Capitani. These members constitute the initial general assembly, which may accept additional members in the future.
The reorganization began with the “Manjaro 2.0 Manifesto,” which the developers published in March. The document criticized the project’s management and argued that founder Philip Müller had virtually sole control over decisions. It also said that other developers had very limited access to the project’s systems. The authors expressed concerns about declining participation, persistent technical issues, and what they believed was commercial interests taking precedence over Manjaro’s development.
One of the manifesto proposals was to separate the community project from Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG and have it run by an independent non-profit entity. The developers proposed transferring the project's systems and web spaces, code repositories, and community funds to the new entity. They also proposed agreeing on terms for using the Manjaro name and trademark. The entity's registration announcement does not specify whether these transfers have been made.
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The contributors had warned that they might create a separate version of Manjaro if the discussions didn't go their way. Müller had stated that he would discuss the proposed structure after the non-profit was established.
The Manjaro team has been rolling out the latest beta and stable updates without Müller's supervision. At the same time, developers are improving their development systems, partly in response to ongoing automated attacks against existing systems.
The change concerns the management of the project, decisions about its development, and control of the systems that support it. It is not a new version of Manjaro, does not change its base, Arch Linux, and does not require any action from users.
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