tags:

• presentation
• opensource title: Open Source Beyond Licensing - The Evolution Ahead

Open source is no longer a radical act. From legal innovation to ways of working remotely and collaboratively, the past 20 years have integrated it as a common baseline.

Can we get maintainers paid, make open source a job, and work alongside new tools like AI?

What new licenses, ways of working, and principles power the next 20 years?

This ended up being perhaps a bit licensing heavy, but people seem to enjoy the material and learn a bit of history, emerging licenses, and so on.

Presented June 26th, 2024#

Part of a mini open source series.

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Resources#

The presentation below is exported from Keynote and the links are clickable, but you can also explore the links I've mentioned directly:

• Ted Leung, Explaining Commons Based Peer Production
• [[Open Source Definition]] by the [[OSI]]. See also my take on [[OSI-approved Open Source]]
• From [[Kyle Mitchell]], Copyleft Intolerance and the Defining-Open Mind Trap
• Parity License
• Prosperity License
• My general [[Open Source Licensing]] page has more on this
• 996.icu
• [[Big Time License]]
• Polyform Standardized Licenses
• [[Blue Oak Council]], including their "gold" list of permissive licenses
• Dries Buytaert, Balancing Makers and Takers to Scale and Sustain Open Source
• Still working on this, but [[Permissive Licenses and Fenced Community]]
• Examples of commercial open source with some form of enterprise license or other restrictions:
  • [[Cal.com]]
  • [[Posthog]]
  • [[Outline]]
• Tools you should know about for collecting fees, donations, license sales, consulting, etc.
  • [[Open Collective]]
  • [[Polar]]
• These two articles are relatively brand new, and what I'm sharing for thinking about AI and software development:
  • [[Steve Yegge]], [[Death of the Junior Developer]]
  • [[Maggie Appleton]], [[Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers]]

Not included in the presentation, but [[Open Source is a restaurant]] is a useful related read on how think about paying for open source.

The concept of [[open source as a job]] is predicated on more global participation in software.

In discussion, I mentioned [[Situational Awareness]] set of essays as American propaganda, but important to understand for AI future directions.

Presentation#