The open-source community faces pressing challenges with licensing and revenue, prompting a shift toward more sustainable and clearly defined models to protect and advance its foundational principles.
  • recursive_recursion they/themEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I finally finished reading the essay and it was not worth the effort.

    The idea of [Post-Open licensing generating profits for developers] has started but nothing concrete was discussed or mentioned.

    “At this point, I am mostly talking with companies about funding. We need about US$200,000 right away, half for me to work on the policy and processes, and half to pay a lawyer to produce three documents and give some advice on the policy and processes,” he explained.

    Prospects for Post-Open Success

    If Post-Open gets up and running, it will take at least a year before companies report on its use and revenue starts flowing. Perens plans to provide support en masse for the whole Post-Open collection.

    “The support folks would work with the customer, and the open-source developers would maintain their projects without having to deal with the end-user, which I think a lot of them would be happy with,” Perens predicted.

    Open-source developers also have the option of dual-licensing with Post-Open. If they do, the Post-Open customers start paying them as part of the Post-Open instead of using the open-source license, noted Perens.

    “That’s part of the Post-Open agreement they have. So, the developers start making money,” he concluded.