Open Source Licensing, Community, and Business Models, Outlier Ventures Basecamp

[boris]

I gave a private talk to the Outlier Ventures Basecamp Accelerator cohort. Slides are available on Notist Open Source: Licensing, Business Models, Community

Resources

Lots of opensource resources to browse here on the forum.

Read Kyle’s blog for deep discussion on licensing:

/dev/lawyer - Kyle Mitchell

Kyle is a dual class lawyer / software engineer. He is an expert on open source licensing, and is exploring licensing as a tool around data ethics. Kyle is the founder of License Zero, an automated vending machine for software licensing. To go along with it, he has created new software licenses: Parity, Prosperity, and Charity. [43]

Also had a long video / audio chat with Kyle:

Indie Devs, Licensing, and more: a Fireside Chat with Kyle Mitchell

[kyle-fireside] Kyle Mitchell is a dual class lawyer - software engineer. He has worked on a number of software licensing. He joined us on the call last week with Erlend, and we’re going to do a similar fireside chat. The best way to get a sense of what Kyle is working on and interested in is to read his blog, as well as the License Zero blog. For background reading, the Parity and Prosperity licenses are good starting points, described simply on the License Zero home page: Contributors ca…

Kyle’s Cross-License Collaboratives

Cross-License Collaboratives - Kyle Mitchell

Kyle’s solution to “decentralizing contributor license agreements”. Maintain your projects’ licenses and create shared moneymaking opportunity without any company, foundation, or dictator.

Fireside chat video, Open Source and Money, with Erlend Sogge Heggen:

Open Source and Money: a Fireside Chat with Erlend Sogge Heggen

[erlend] Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend_sh has a long history of involvement with open source and business. Currently Developer Relations @MeiliSearch Board Member @AmethystEngine Formerly VP of Community / Open Source Strategy @discourse We’ll run this call “fireside chat” style, with @boris covering some questions and discussion with @erlend_sh, as well as taking questions from the audience. Open Source and Money is a broad topic. Support for maintainers, business models, licensing, compa…

Freely available ebook, Pieter Hintjens Social Architecture:

Social Architecture: Building Online Communities, Pieter Hintjens, 2016

[image] This book is an all-in-one primer for anyone aiming to build on-line communities. It covers the theory of Social Architecture, and the tools you need to build a community. It explains the ZeroMQ community in detail, including its collaboration process (C4). This is a powerful book for anyone building an Open Source community, or an on-line community in other areas. Google Books Available on GitHub, the book is CC-SA. PDF Hintjens is the founder of the ZeroMQ open source software c…

Dries Buytaert, Balancing Makers and Takers to Scale and Sustain Open Source

Balancing Makers and Takers to scale and sustain Open Source, Dries Buytaert, Sept 2019

To scale and sustain Open Source ecosystems in a more efficient and fair manner, Open Source projects need to embrace new governance, coordination and incentive models. Dries does a great, long write up, including a deep dive into Ostrom, including definitions and illustrations of different types of goods: [open-source-makers-and-takers-4-1280w] For end users, Open Source projects are public goods ; the shared resource is the software . But for Open Source companies, Open Source projec…