It is a smaller scale project, in the sense that it is not worth setting up a foundation of that scale due to the overhead.

We would like to support the developers, but it becomes complicated due to invention assignments when we take them on as contractors. We would also like to have it where more than one company can contribute, as a number of other startups are interested in participating, which makes contractor agreements complicated.

We will have a look at bounty source. It is simply because we would prefer to have these as accounting donations (not necessarily charitable), but that becomes difficult, as you have to donate to something.