From: Alejandro Colomar <alx-AT-kernel.org>

Hi all,

As you know, I’ve been maintaining the Linux man-pages project for the last 4 years as a voluntary. I’ve been doing it in my free time, and no company has sponsored that work at all. At the moment, I cannot sustain this work economically any more, and will temporarily and indefinitely stop working on this project. If any company has interests in the future of the project, I’d welcome an offer to sponsor my work here; if so, please let me know.

Have a lovely day! Alex

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)
    link
    1730 days ago

    Bruce Perens is currently working on a new licensing model called Post Open requiring that business with sufficient revenue to pay up.

    https://postopen.org/

      • @khorovodoved@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        630 days ago

        I doubt it. It is basically equivalent to buying a proprietary software license for 1% of a revenue. I doubt any large business would be willing to spend that much on a single piece of software. And it would always be only one piece of software at a time.

        • @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
          link
          fedilink
          English
          2
          edit-2
          29 days ago

          to be quite honest I don’t want to see any large business around my project unless they are paying. They are not my target audience, and I’m not writing to funnel money into their pockets

        • @Piatro@programming.dev
          link
          fedilink
          English
          229 days ago

          I believe it’s 1% for access to the “entire post-open ecosystem”, rather than 1% per project which would be unreasonable. So you could use one or thousands of projects under the Post-open banner, but still pay 1%.

          It will take years to develop the post-open ecosystem to be something worth spending that much on.

    • @matcha_addict@lemy.lol
      link
      fedilink
      English
      130 days ago

      Why only “with sufficient revenue”? All commercial use should pay. Adding “with sufficient revenue” only makes it more difficult to enforce and introduces loopholes.

      • JackbyDev
        link
        fedilink
        English
        430 days ago

        I’ve looked into this very briefly before and I think part of the reason is that tons of things we wouldn’t necessarily call commercial usage are considered commercial usage. This was in relation to favoring the non non-commercial usage Creative Commons licenses though. (The ones they call free culture licenses.)