Practices in Open Source Software Crowd-funding

Version 1.1 by Patrick Masson on 2015/01/13 21:55

Those crowd-funding projects that meet OSI requirements will be able to display the OSI Keyhole Logo and identify themselves as a "Project Developed with an OSI Approved License."

Requirements:

  • The crowd-funded project page must provide a link to a publicly accessible source code repository (e.g. GitHub, Sourceforge, self-hosted, etc.) for the project and identified as the sole development home of that crowd-funded project.
  • The name of the crowd-funded project must trademarked and be identical to the name of the project for the source code repository.
  • The root directory of the named project repository must contain a file named "LICENSE.txt" that includes an OSI Approved License.

Possible additional opportunities:

Crowd-funding projects are run as OSI Fiscal Sponsorships so that the OSI can guarantee funds are used as described. This would give the projects credibility while giving the contributors security that the projects are legitimate. The contributions would then be tax deductible. This would also provide the OSI with a small revenue stream to administer the service.

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