[License-discuss] How can we as a community help empower authors outside license agreements?

Coraline Ada Ehmke coraline at idolhands.com
Mon Mar 16 00:45:24 UTC 2020



> On Mar 15, 2020, at 7:26 PM, Brendan Hickey <brendan.m.hickey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> "It encourages fair compensation. The software project’s maintainers may, at their discretion, request remuneration in the form of code contributions, financial consideration, or other forms of voluntary support from organizations that derive commercial value from the software.”

So asking for voluntary donations or code contributions is verboten? What about all those projects signed up with Tidelift and OpenCollective, are they not open source anymore?


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