#fairsource — Public Fediverse posts
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In order to "cleanly" fork a #FairSource codebase, one would want to at all times have a license lifetime that extends as far as the deferred open-source release. This way one would be able to just keep things running as is.
But the bumpy part are bug fixes and security fixes. Since I would still have a license, I can deploy all fixes. But they will come mixed with new features, to which my license will expire, creating a time gap until these features will also become open source.
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I have just come across #FairSource https://fair.io/
It seems like it could have the potential to be a better compromise than #OpenCore when it comes to monetization of #OpenSource through a single vendor development model.
The single vendor retains the ability to generate income not only from support but also from licensing fees.
Customers get the source code, can tinker with it and deploy it how they want. But most importantly they can fork.
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I have just come across #FairSource https://fair.io/
It seems like it could have the potential to be a better compromise than #OpenCore when it comes to monetization of #OpenSource through a single vendor development model.
The single vendor retains the ability to generate income not only from support but also from licensing fees.
Customers get the source code, can tinker with it and deploy it how they want. But most importantly they can fork.
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I have just come across #FairSource https://fair.io/
It seems like it could have the potential to be a better compromise than #OpenCore when it comes to monetization of #OpenSource through a single vendor development model.
The single vendor retains the ability to generate income not only from support but also from licensing fees.
Customers get the source code, can tinker with it and deploy it how they want. But most importantly they can fork.
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I have just come across #FairSource https://fair.io/
It seems like it could have the potential to be a better compromise than #OpenCore when it comes to monetization of #OpenSource through a single vendor development model.
The single vendor retains the ability to generate income not only from support but also from licensing fees.
Customers get the source code, can tinker with it and deploy it how they want. But most importantly they can fork.
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I have just come across #FairSource https://fair.io/
It seems like it could have the potential to be a better compromise than #OpenCore when it comes to monetization of #OpenSource through a single vendor development model.
The single vendor retains the ability to generate income not only from support but also from licensing fees.
Customers get the source code, can tinker with it and deploy it how they want. But most importantly they can fork.
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Le « fair source » comme « alternative pour éviter les pièges de l'open source » 🤦♂️
Il n’y a pas de « pièges » avec l’open source.
Par contre de la presse « spécialisée » qui est à côté du sujet, oui.
Par contre des entreprises faisant de l’open source washing et n’assumant pas leur retournement de veste pour préserver leurs intérêts mercantiles après s’être servi de l’open source comme d’un cheval de Troie, oui.
Des clowns et des vautours.
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@dvalin99 attenzione, non è #OpenSource bensì #FairSource, licenza che apprezzo moltissimo ma nella quale molti vedono importanti limiti e problemi:
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You owe it to yourself to watch this killer talk from @adamhjk about free software, open source, fair source, and business.
"You sell that shit for money!" 🤣
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That’s not what #opensource has meant for the past quarter century though, so while the OSI’s “OSAID” opinion piece is absolute nonsense, so is trying to change the meaning of the term to incorporate your own political views as to what fairness means. Use another brand like #fairsource for that.
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Some #startups are going ‘#fairsource’ to avoid the pitfalls of #opensource #licensing
The fair source concept is designed to help #companies align themselves with the “open” software development sphere, without encroaching into existing licensing landscapes, be that open source, open core, or source-available, and while avoiding any negative associations that exist with “proprietary.”
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/22/some-startups-are-going-fair-source-to-avoid-the-pitfalls-of-open-source-licensing/So all the plus of OpenSource without giving back... #capitalism at its best
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On 20 years doing business in #OpenSource, and regarding #FairCode and #FairSource, @ldubost writes
Why open source is essential: Addressing the limits of Fair Code and Fair Source models
https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/xwiki-versus-fair-code-and-fair-source/
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@itsfoss Aha, more like "ajar source"...
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More Companies Are Opting for #FairSource Instead of #OpenSource : Here’s Why
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La licence *Fair Source* VS l'**Open Source **pour les logiciels, c'est équivalent au *Terra Vitis* (" agriculture raisonnée") VS **Agriculture Biologique** pour la viticulture.
Soit une grosse esbrouffe ! -
"pitfalls" 🙄 👉🏼 💰 💰 💰
TechCrunch: Some startups are going 'fair source' to avoid the pitfalls of open source licensing
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Watching with interest:
"Some startups are going ‘fair source’ to avoid the pitfalls of open source licensing"
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/22/some-startups-are-going-fair-source-to-avoid-the-pitfalls-of-open-source-licensing/ -
Sentry is running a campaign for the new marketing term "fair source". Currently this boils down to their new Functional Source License (FSL).
So far there's not much traction: GitButler and four early stage startups.
What differentiation does this new category offer from source available?
And most importantly, it doesn't address the main concern:
When owned by a single vendor, project license is volatile. https://horovits.medium.com/b5486a4de1c6 -
> Free software used to be about sticking it to The Man, but today The Man produces nearly all the free software.
🔗 https://blog.gitbutler.com/the-future-of-open-source/
Do you agree with Scott Chacon on the future of open source?
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"The purpose of Fair Source is to legitimize the practice of companies meaningfully sharing the code for their core software products while retaining control of their roadmap and business model, without confusing this with Free and Open Source Software. Fair Source companies value user freedom and developer sustainability."
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CW: ♻️ The four freedoms of free software under attack in OSI elections
mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/103…
♲ @[email protected]:Folks pushing proprietary no-commercial-use licenses (#EthicalSource/ #FairSource etc) are trying to get voted onto the board of the #OSI #OpenSource Initiative, to push the nonsense that their licenses are a kind of #OpenSource". In the early 2000s corporate interests set out to marginalize the #SoftwareFreedom movement by taking control of the #OSI. It's time to return the favour. If you are an OSI member, please vote for board candidates committed to the #FourFreedoms:
opensource.org/elections
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Folks pushing proprietary no-commercial-use licenses (#EthicalSource/ #FairSource etc) are trying to get voted onto the board of the #OSI #OpenSource Initiative, to push the nonsense that their licenses are a kind of #OpenSource". In the early 2000s corporate interests set out to marginalize the #SoftwareFreedom movement by taking control of the #OSI. It's time to return the favour. If you are an OSI member, please vote for board candidates committed to the #FourFreedoms:
https://opensource.org/elections -
Like #FairSource, and the #CommonsClause, #LicenseZero is yet another attempt at mususing the term #OpenSource to describe the software license equivalent of the #NoCommercialUse licenses in the #CreativeCommons suite:
https://licensezero.com/ -
Like #FairSource, and the #CommonsClause, #LicenseZero is yet another attempt at mususing the term #OpenSource to describe the software license equivalent of the #NoCommercialUse licenses in the #CreativeCommons suite:
https://licensezero.com/ -
@wolftune well, #CopyFarLeft uses a cooperative vs. corporation distinction, rather than libre vs. proprietary. But I agree that the underlying logic of trying to exclude some parties from freely using free code kind of defeats the purpose, however well-intended (#CommonsClause, #FairSource etc). It's not a radical solution, in that it tries to bandage the symptom, rather than fix the problem at root (asymmetrical power/wealth relations between communities and corporations)
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What Matt doesn't want to accept, is that #copyleft is precisely the answer people are looking for when they try to apply things like the #FairSource license, the #CommonsClause, or the #PPL (Peer Production License) to software. They want to protect the software commons from extractive capitalists, who don't want to contribute back to the pool they draw from. Copyleft was created to achieve exactly that protection of the software commons.
