The Fair Share Clause - Erlend SH

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https://blog.erlend.sh/the-fair-share-clause-d891c5c2dc30

Discusses a “Fairtrade” certification for open source

My intention is not for this to be a legal document, but rather a social contract. Similar to how the Fairtrade certification leaves it up to consumers to make informed decisions with their purchases, this clause would leave it up to open source maintainers to make an informed decision on which company they should invest their time in. For companies however, should they choose to honour it, the Fair Share Clause will function much like taxation.

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I wrote a blog post riffing on this post:

Further Thoughts on the Fair Share Clause

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This post is by one of the Discourse founders and references how they gave back:

Discourse Gives Back 2017

Starting from our initial prototype work in late 2012, Discourse has always been a 100% open source project that builds upon the decades of hard work of many other open source projects to survive. We try to contribute as many upstream fixes as we can, particularly in the case of bugs we run into along the way — but we can and should do more. I’m happy to announce that this year, we’ve grown large enough to earmark funds to contribute directly to the projects we rely on most: