Table of Contents

• Perspectives

  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Open Source Ain't Free
  • Money and Open Source
  • Vue.js author now works on it full time thanks to donations
  • Fine Uploader attempted a FOSS-friendly commercial license
  • OptaPlanner gets picked up by Red Hat
  • Open Source Exploitation
  • Redis author sponsored by Pivotal labs
  • Charging for Open Source
  • Corporations and OSS do not mix
  • More Money for Better Open-Source Software
  • Marijn's Sustainable Open Source Fund
  • The Perils of Mixing Open Source and Money
  • The Ethics of Unpaid Labor and the OSS Community
  • Commerce and Open Source
  • Open Source Work
  • Github Issues and Mental Health
  • The Path to Full-time Open Source
  • Elementary OS Lets Users Decide How Much To Pay
  • Ways to Earn Money Through Open Source
  • Open Source Infrastructure
  • The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure
  • The Money In Open-Source Software
  • Who Sponsors Drupal Development?
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • How to Pay for Open Source: Seed Money
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares
  • Equity For Effort: Code for Open-Source, Earn Startup Shares

• Donation sites

  • Open Collective
  • Indiegogo
  • Pledgie
  • Gratipay
  • Freedom Sponsors
  • Patreon

• Payment Platforms

  • plasso.co
  • Simple Goods
  • Pulley
  • Donorbox

• Profit-sharing Platforms

  • BountySource Salt

• Open Source Software Foundations

  • The Apache Software Foundation
  • Software Freedom Conservancy
  • Linux Foundation
  • Open Source Robotics Foundation

• Example Projects

  • Synergy
  • MixItUp - BY-NC)
  • Fresco
  • Fresco

• Sponsored Projects

  • Fine Uploader
  • Imageflow - respect-the-pixels-a-secure-alt-to-image).

• Relevant Licenses

  • Business Source License (BSL) - left), with the ability to switch to a free open source license of your choice after a few years.

• Reference

  • MySQL dual licensing
  • Wikipedia: Open source business models

• FAQ and Key Terms

  • Open Hardware Business Models