Re:The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source
by platform on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @05:22PM
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CC should really be renamed to 'Corporate Continuation' (or abbreviation changed entirely).
Commons Clause is misleading in the context of Open source licenses.
On a separate note, it is important to address volunteer open source contribution and development.
I think as a community we are missing a model
that guides how :
a) developers,
b) their hosting organizations
c) financial contributors / donors
can all benefit from their activities.
Right now, there are different models and experimentation are being used.
But I think we, as a community, could come up with 3-4 models that make it worthwile to the above groups.
Commons Clause is misleading in the context of Open source licenses.
On a separate note, it is important to address volunteer open source contribution and development. I think as a community we are missing a model that guides how :
a) developers,
b) their hosting organizations
c) financial contributors / donors
can all benefit from their activities.
Right now, there are different models and experimentation are being used.
But I think we, as a community, could come up with 3-4 models that make it worthwile to the above groups.