When I worked for the UK Government I was once asked if we could find a way to pay for all the Open Source Software we were using. It is a surprisingly hard problem and I want to talk about some of the issues we faced. The UK Government publishes a lot of Open Source code - nearly everything developed in-house by the state is available under an OSI Approved licence. The UK is generally pretty…
This book clarifies how to solve project-equity-for-contributions sanely, in startups.
It, therefore, also helps with solving how to do equity in FLOSS/OSS projects.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/slicing pie handbook
Any project which may in the future be wanting to be paid full-time for some people, please understand that book.
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