ovirt-engine
cpl
| ovirt-engine | cpl | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 | |
| 481 | 7 | |
| 1.0% | - | |
| 7.2 | 10.0 | |
| 3 days ago | 9 months ago | |
| Java | ||
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ovirt-engine
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Why Open Source?
> Open Source is the ultimate form of sustainability.
I'm sorry, what? If the company that produces open source fails, the software doesn't have maintainers anymore. Unless someone else picks up working on a possibly hugely complex piece of code, you will have an outdated, possibly sull-of-secholes piece of junk in no time.
So many open source projects have a funding problem. A single company pays the 5-15-50 developers it takes to keep it alive, build releases and so on, and then suddenly goes under or pulls funding.
You can't just simply take over the mainenance of a large project at the snap of your fingers. The projects mentioned in the article are the exception, not the rule. The "community" doesn't typically come up with funding to the tune of several million dollars a year, nor does it have the know-how on all the details.
If you need an example, take a look at the commit graph of the oVirt project [1] after Red Hat decided to sunset it.
[1] https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine/graphs/commit-activity
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cpl
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Bounties Damage Open Source Projects
I am testing a solution to the problem of funding open source through a custom license based off the AGPL, the Candid Public License: https://github.com/candiddev/cpl
The goal is to be ridiculously FOSS and require companies to do the same in order to use your project. If they don't want to embrace the copyleft aspect, they can purchase an exemption from it (see https://yaml8n.dev/pricing/ for an example).
In this model, the FOSS ecosystem can still thrive and build off of each other, and projects can negotiate license exemption to help sustain themselves.
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Why Open Source?
I made an open source license that you may be interested in. It's basically the AGPL + copyleft for _servives_ that are dependent on your service, as well as build tools. You can check it out here: https://github.com/candiddev/cpl.
- Copyleft license that infects dependent or operational software
What are some alternatives?
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