Mario Zechner is joining us at Earendil and we just acquired Pi. An Open Source project. Earendil is a venture-backed for-profit, public benefit corporation. How do those things go together?
Values | EARENDIL
Earendil is a public benefit corporation crafting software and open protocols to strengthen human agency, bridge division, and cultivate lasting joy.
Everything an open source maintainer might need to know about open source licensing | Ben Balter
There's lots of internet lore around open source licensing. An attorney and open source developer answers the most common questions.
Time for Net Giants to Pay Fairly for the Open Source on Which They Depend | Linux Journal
Licensing lies at the heart of open source. Arguably, free software began with the publication of the GNU GPL in 1989. And since then, open-source projects are defined as such by virtue of the licenses they adopt and whether the latter meet the Open Source Definition. The continuing importance of licensing is shown by the periodic flame wars that erupt in this area. Recently, there have been two such flarings of strong feelings, both of which raise important issues.
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Single-Vendor Open Source Firms (and Their Intellectual Property Strategies)
Dirk Riehle, dirk@riehle.org An edited version was published in Computer magazine, April 2020 Abstract This article present a particular business model for commercial open source firms, called the …
Reimagining OSS Licensing and Commercialization with Fair Source - Adam Jacob, System Initiative
Please Help Keep our Language Precise: Single-Vendor Open Source is Neo-Proprietary Source, not Closed Source
When the Open Source Initiative defined open source, it focused only on the license, and ignored the process. Smart entrepreneurs quickly discovered that they could provide to the world their produ…
Open Source Beyond Licensing - The Evolution Ahead
Boris Mann's digital garden and personal site.
Supporting Open Source Software
In the Summer 2020 issue of Usenix's ;login: Dan Geer and George P. Sieniawski have a column entitled Who Will Pay the Piper for Open Sourc...
How to Make Money from Open Source Platforms - Linux.com
John Mark Walker is the Open Source Ecosystems Manager at Red Hat. I never thought I’d have to write this article in 2015. By now, I thought it would be self-evident how to derive revenue from open source software platforms. But alas, no. Despite the fact that the success of open source software is unparalleled and […]
The intellectual property rights imperative of single-vendor open source
I guess everybody knows it but nobody ever named it, as far as I know, so I’m doing it here: The Intellectual Property Rights Imperative of Single-Vendor Commercial Open Source Always act in …
Why Now? And Who? The Struggle Over Single-Vendor / Open-Core Licensing
Update 2023-08-26: Redis writes to us that they rebranded from Redis Labs, to Redis. In yesterday’s talk I reviewed the current licensing struggle of single-vendor open source firms. Single-v…
Open-Source Contribution: The Ultimate Guide | Built In
How to get into open-source contribution according to these experts.
The Single-Vendor Commercial Open Source Business Model
Dirk Riehle Research, SAP Labs LLC Updated 2010-11-09: Renamed “commercial open source” to “single-vendor (commercial) open source” to be clear about the difference to distr…
One Startup's Heretical Plan to Turn Open Source Code Into Cash
With a new kind of license, open sourcers are trying to strike a balance between getting paid and preserving their values.
