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> What do I mean by Fake Open Source? A project that has a large percentage of its contributors beholden to a single organization/entity to me is not really ope
by ummonk 5y ago
> What do I mean by Fake Open Source? A project that has a large percentage of its contributors beholden to a single organization/entity to me is not really open source in spirit.
Then you should use a different term - something like "community project". The single organization projects are still open source, both technically and in spirit.
> I'm looking for a project where I can feel confident my contributions won't effectively end up behind some proprietary license down the line if/when the VC backed organization that primarily sponsors development decides it needs to protect itself from AWS.
If you're talking about ElasticSearch, I'll point out that Amazon forked it and OpenSearch is not behind a proprietary license, so all contributions made to ElasticSearch continue to be available as open source, with improvements being made.
- database_guy 5y agoI have contributed code to projects "owned" by one of these types of organizations and after 8 months of waiting for my (very small) patches to be reviewed because I wasn't internal, it just didn't feel like healthy Open Source. Calling them Fake Community Projects as a term works just as well for me. OpenSearch could be a contender (though I did not have fun running Elasticsearch back in the day). I will keep watching it and see how development goes, it's a good call-out.
- mountainriver 5y agoI totally feel this but it’s very dependent on the company