In this presentation delivered at FOSSASIA I presented what is open source, how open source licenses work, how to pick one, and possible business models for open source projects.

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Gilles Gravier
Choosing the right
license and business
model to keep your
company alive
Director, Open Source Practice

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Agenda
What Kind Of Developer Are You
Defining Open Source - Code
Defining Open Source – Licenses /
Categories
Hosting Your Code And Development
Business Models

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What kind of developer are you?
Hobbyist
Doing it for fun in your spare time
For the glory
To use some code for your project
User/patcher
You use the software, find bugs or need improvements
You provide fixes / updates
Corporate contributor
Payed by your company to write something useful for them
Project developer
Funded by the project to develop code
Contributed by an organisation

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Defining Open Source - Code
double
stir_clock(double entropy_estimate)
{
#ifdef HAVE_CLOCK
clock_t c;
c = clock();
RAND_add(&c, sizeof(c),
entropy_estimate);
return entropy_estimate;
#else /* _HAVE_CLOCK */
return 0;
#endif /* _HAVE_CLOCK */
}
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101001010100011010000110010100100000
011011010110100101101110011001000010
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011100110010000001100010011001010110
100001101001011011100110010000100000
011101000110100001100101001000000110
011101101111011001110110011101101100
011001010111001100111111010000110110
110001100001011010010111001001110110
011011110111100101100001011011100111
010000111010001000000100100100100111
011011010010000001100010011011110111
010101111001011000010110111001110100
001011100000110110011001110110010000
001110111011010000110111100100111011
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Source Binary

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Defining Open Source - Licenses
1. Free Redistribution of Source Code
2. Source Code Available
3. Allows Derived Works
4. Allows Integrity of Author's Source Code
5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
7. Distribution of License with Code
8. License Must Not Be Specific to a Product
9. License Must Not Restrict Other Software
10.License Must Be Technology-Neutral
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/

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Defining Open Source – License Categories
Non-Reciprocal (non-copyleft)
“Attribution” licenses
Fewest requirements, unrestricted scope of use.
Unrestricted development of derived works
Examples:
Apache: Android, Tomcat
BSD: Sudo, FreeBSD
ISC: Ripple
File-Level Reciprocal (weak copyleft)
Community fostering licenses
Files derived from common files must be shared with the commons.
Other derived works may be licensed in any manner.
Examples:
MPL: Mozilla, LibreOffice 4.0 and above
LGPL: LibreOffice 3.6 and before
Project-Level Reciprocal (strong copyleft)
Project fostering licenses
Most requirements: seeks to propagate open source.
All work (including derived works) must be shared with the commons.
Examples:
GPL: Linux
AGPL : Funambol
CERN OHL : Easy Φ

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Summary
An open source license gives you permission in
advance to innovate via using, studying,
improving and sharing the code
http://choosealicense.com/

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Agenda
What Kind Of Developer Are You
Defining Open Source - Code
Defining Open Source – Licenses /
Categories
Hosting Your Code And Development
Business Models

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Open Source Business Models
1. “Dual” License
Differentiation of open source and commercial
Add value to base & sell
2. Subscription
Combined offering of software and support
3. Hosted
Software as a service
With or without data
4. Services
Consulting, Training…
Enterprise integration consulting
5. Embedded
Use as a minor part within another product
6. Stewardship / Sponsorship / Funding
Drives standards, developer capture

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Gilles Gravier
gilles.gravier@wipro.com
Director, Open Source Practice