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

Russell Nelson nelson at crynwr.com
Mon Mar 16 14:28:37 UTC 2020


On 3/15/20 8:26 PM, Brendan Hickey 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."

That item is a big nothingburger. Of course you can ask people to give 
you money. The Open Source Definition doesn't bother to mention this 
because it's obvious.


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