https://github.com/zimme/open-source-contribution-license

https://github.com/zimme/open-source-contribution-license

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/zimme/open-source-contribution-license
• Owner: zimme
• License: other
• Created: 2017-10-05T18:35:03.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-10-06T22:12:52.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-19T15:15:54.848Z (about 1 month ago)
• Size: 9.77 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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# Open-Source Contribution License

A permissive open-source license which require users of your work to contribute

to any open-source work in some way.

## Background

I love permissive open-source work. The projects help us create new services,

products and much more. A lot of people and companies try their best to

contribute back to the community, which is great, we just need more of it.

I want to create a license for open-source work that will require users of the

projects using this license to contribute to any open-source work in any way

they can.

Let's find a way to make paying it forward the norm. Where would your startup or

product be today without open-source? Would you be able to ship a new product in

a few months without using open-source projects?

## License

License text can be found in [LICENSE.md]

## Examples

Companies using open-source projects with this license could have a public

open-source policy, which would show how they contribute to open-source.

A person/company creating a project/product using an open-source project with

this license finds a bug in the open-source project should takes the time to

submit an pull-request to fix that bug instead of just fixing it locally.

## Goal

I hope that this license or a similar license will become the most popular

license used by open-source projects to help open-source in general getting more

contributions of any kind.

# Contribute

Please open an issue to start a discussion. Submit a PR to suggest changes,

additions, etc.

[LICENSE.md]: LICENSE.md