Simple. Sensible. Sustainable.
opensourcemaintenancefee.org
Directly fund your maintainers with the Open Source Maintenance Fee.

I saw this some time ago and wasn’t really sure how to feel about it. On one hand it’s good to make corporations compensate maintainers, but I also don’t want to be forced to ask for a fee because my project uses another project that uses this.

  • Captain Beyond@linkage.ds8.zone
    2·
    20 hours ago

    But I’m one of the few privileged users who can build from source.

    There are avenues available for less-privileged users to obtain builds of free software projects (e.g. GNU/Linux distributions, F-Droid, and so on).

    • bruce965@lemmy.ml
      2·
      13 hours ago

      Then what’s even is the point of this license? There will always be a third party distributing unofficial binaries.

      And if this license forbade third parties to redistribute binaries, then it would no longer really be FOSS.