Marginalia Goes Open Source

Re:Marginalia Goes Open Source by pabs3 on Friday May 27, 2022 @11:02PM (#31537236)

Thanks for choosing the GNU AGPLv3 license! That is the best license for services like search engines, especially if they intend to cement the license by having a diverse set of copyright holders that ensure the license doesn't change, rather than going the open core route and requiring copyright assignment via a CLA and selling proprietary versions.

What is your plan for sustaining the project in terms of contributions, funding and hardware?

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Re:Marginalia Goes Open Source by marginalia_nu on Friday May 27, 2022 @11:09PM (#31537267)

Yeah, that was my analysis as well.

> What is your plan for sustaining the project in terms of contributions, funding and hardware?

Still much to figure out. The project is still fairly immature in general.

As far as hardware and funding goes, it's sort of sustainable now through not demanding very much in either, but more of both would no doubt be necessary to grow much farther. It's a bit claustrophobic not really having a proper CI machine or test instance for example.

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Re:Marginalia Goes Open Source by pabs3 on Friday May 27, 2022 @11:43PM (#31537418)

You might want to consider forming a non-profit for non-technical ownership/governance of the project (that can receive donations etc), or alternatively moving the new open source project under a fiscal sponsor like SPI or Software Freedom Conservancy.

https://www.spi-inc.org/ https://sfconservancy.org/

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