#postopen — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #postopen, aggregated by home.social.
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Yesterday at the Barcamp Graz we had an engaging discussion about #PostOpen, an ongoing effort to address loopholes in #OpenSource licenses that allow free riders to profit without giving back. Here's the supplemental slides I used for the introduction. #bcg25
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#OpenSource world's #BrucePerens emits draft #PostOpenZeroCost License
The basic idea is companies making more than $5 million annually by using #PostOpen #software in a paid-for product would be required to pay 1 percent of their revenue back to this administrative organization, a 501(c)(6) non-profit, which would distribute the funds to the maintainers and #developers of the participating open source project(s)
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/30/bruce_perens_post_open_license/
