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5title: Open Source Beyond Licensing - The Evolution Ahead
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7**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.
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9Can we get maintainers paid, make open source a job, and work alongside new tools like AI?
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11What new licenses, ways of working, and principles power the next 20 years?
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14This 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.
15## Presented June 26th, 2024
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17Part of a mini open source series.
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19* [Event registration](https://lu.ma/zlnfxgb5)
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21### Resources
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23The presentation below is exported from Keynote and the links are clickable, but you can also explore the links I've mentioned directly:
24
25* Ted Leung, [Explaining Commons Based Peer Production](https://www.sauria.com/py-bin/pyblosxom/pyblosxom.cgi/computers/open_source/1233.html)
26* [[Open Source Definition]] by the [[OSI]]. See also my take on [[OSI-approved Open Source]]
27* From [[Kyle Mitchell]], [Copyleft Intolerance and the Defining-Open Mind Trap](https://writing.kemitchell.com/2023/12/16/Intolerance-Copyleft-Definition)
28* [Parity License](https://paritylicense.com/)
29* [Prosperity License](https://prosperitylicense.com/)
30* My general [[Open Source Licensing]] page has more on this
31* [996.icu](https://996.icu)
32* [[Big Time License]]
33* [Polyform Standardized Licenses](https://polyformproject.org/licenses/)
34* [[Blue Oak Council]], including their "gold" list of permissive licenses
35* Dries Buytaert, [Balancing Makers and Takers to Scale and Sustain Open Source](https://dri.es/balancing-makers-and-takers-to-scale-and-sustain-open-source)
36* Still working on this, but [[Permissive Licenses and Fenced Community]]
37* Examples of commercial open source with some form of enterprise license or other restrictions:
38 * [[Cal.com]]
39 * [[Posthog]]
40 * [[Outline]]
41* Tools you should know about for collecting fees, donations, license sales, consulting, etc.
42 * [[Open Collective]]
43 * [[Polar]]
44* These two articles are relatively brand new, and what I'm sharing for thinking about AI and software development:
45 * [[Steve Yegge]], [[Death of the Junior Developer]]
46 * [[Maggie Appleton]], [[Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers]]
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48Not included in the presentation, but [[Open Source is a restaurant]] is a useful related read on how think about paying for open source.
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50The concept of [[open source as a job]] is predicated on more global participation in software.
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52In discussion, I mentioned [[Situational Awareness]] set of essays as American propaganda, but important to understand for AI future directions.
53### Presentation
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55<iframe src="/assets/2024/06/26/open-source-beyond-licensing/" width="100%" height="650px">
56</iframe>
57* [Full screen presentation](/assets/2024/06/26/open-source-beyond-licensing/)
58* [PDF](/assets/2024/2024-06-26-Open Source Beyond Licensing.pdf)