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awesome-oss-monetization
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Ask HN: How are you monetizing your OSS project?
Hi, I've collected many monetization approaches in the "Awesome OSS Monetization" list on Github - maybe it helps you to find alternatives to donations / sponsorships:
https://github.com/PayDevs/awesome-oss-monetization
- OSS Monetization
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Ask HN: If we make it open source, how do we monetize it?
There are many ways to make a project open-source and still monetize on it. I've collected several approaches here: https://github.com/PayDevs/awesome-oss-monetization
Your case sounds like you could apply an Open SaaS with an AGPL License or create an OpenCore and service special functionality in your SaaS.
If the only concern of your customers is that you could have to close the company and they don't have the code/system anymore, you could create a special (Dual-)License that is GPL as long as your company exists but becomes MIT if you close your company.
- How do professional open source developers get paid?
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Open-source Monetization Approaches
Overall, the repo https://github.com/PayDevs/awesome-oss-monetization is a valuable resource for anyone interested in monetizing OSS. It offers a curated list of tools and platforms, along with useful tips and advice on how to effectively monetize OSS projects. Whether you are a developer looking for ways to sustain your OSS efforts, or a user looking to support the OSS community, the website is worth exploring.
- ⭐ Awesome OSS Monetization approaches almost reached 300 stars on GitHub
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Ways of Monetisation and Popularity
You can look at this awesome list with 34 approaches to monetize OSS to get inspired: https://github.com/PayDevs/awesome-oss-monetization
- A curated list of monetization approaches for open-source software. What have we missed? Feedback welcome!
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How to pay your rent with your open source project
For a curated list of monetization approaches have a look at https://github.com/PayDevs/awesome-oss-monetization
choosealicense.com
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A handy guide to financial support for open source
I recently switched a couple of my projects to non-commercial:
https://polyformproject.org/licenses/noncommercial/1.0.0
I would recommend it to anyone, but it does have some drawbacks. Notably, GitHub and the Go programming language refuse to support it:
https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/issues/1015
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/54683
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How to pay your rent with your open source project
> License the source explicitly for non commercial use only
Sadly, GitHub support for this doesn't really exist:
https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/issues/1015
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Marching cubes implementation
I think he wants to know under what license you've released this code, in case anyone wants to use it. You can find a list of open source licenses here: https://opensource.org/licenses. Usually this licence is added in a LICENSE.md file in the github repo, see https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/blob/gh-pages/LICENSE.md for example.
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