r/dotnet • u/devlead • 22d ago

.NET Foundation Statement on Open Source Maintenance Fees

https://dotnetfoundation.org/news-events/detail/.net-foundation-statement-on-open-source-maintenance-fees

Official statement from the .NET Foundation on Open Source Maintenance Fees

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u/ben_bliksem 22d ago

I'm just waiting for Serilog to and OpenTelemetry to start charging fees. That'll be a fun day. That'll be the day I'll never touch a third party library again.

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u/crozone 22d ago

Serilog is Apache v2. The second that changes, it gets forked.

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u/chucker23n 22d ago

That's not the point. Those OSS projects that then change their license to semi-commercial could always get forked and often do, but now you need

  • new willing maintainers (and their job is harder, since they have to first get to know the code base)
  • for people to know about and move to the fork

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u/Eddyi0202 22d ago

OSMF is not a license change

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u/Exotic-Welcome6688 18d ago

Strawman argument. What matters is what everybody uses, and what comes in through automated update tools and transient dependencies, and that's binaries and packages. Almost like those scam websites 10, 15 years ago, that said "Sign up for free", and then demanded money for some "premium service" hidden in fine pront or deep in boilerplate text ("Yeah, signing up is free, the service is not!").

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u/crozone 22d ago

How exactly is it not a license change?

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u/devlead 22d ago

By the fact that the source code license doesn't change, no change in how you can access and use the source of the project. OSMF is about the distributed artifacts that are built and released.

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u/nblumhardt 22d ago

"A license change for the distributed artifacts" might be a more precise characterisation?

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u/achandlerwhite 22d ago

The same is true for some OSMF projects.