Posts tagged “licensing”
Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make that supply worth having.
The most interesting thing about Cem Kaner's software bill of rights is the fact that we don't have...Aug 31, 2003
Cem Kaner's software bill of rights lists things that sound obvious and fundamental, yet we've been explicitly stripped of all of them through click-to-accept license agreements. More people should be furious about this.
