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Bringing together a social model of open source

There’s more to open source than what fits into a license. Julia Ferraioli paints a picture of OS based on the people who consume, contribute to, and maintain it.
October 10, 2022

There’s more to open source than what fits into a license. Julia Ferraioli paints a picture of OS based on the people who consume, contribute to, and maintain it.

Over the past year, I’ve written a series of articles for LeadDev, through which we began to define a social model of open source, based on the people who consume, contribute to, and maintain it, rather than a technical model of open source, based on the legal rights and responsibilities as defined in the license.

One year and five articles later, we’re much closer to arriving at a shared understanding around the challenges of working in and with open source, as well as how making the implicit explicit helps, but there’s still a way to go.

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