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Post open source

Post open source, also called "post open-source software (POSS)", was a 2012/2013 noticed movement among software developers, in particular open-source software developers. The interpretation was that this was a reaction to the complex compliance requirements of the software license/permission culture, noticed by more code being posted into repositories without any license whatsoever, implying a disregard for the current license regimes, including copyleft as supporter of the current copyright system ("Copyright reform movement").

History

"POSS" was first used by James Governor, founder of analyst firm RedMonk, who said "younger devs today are about POSS – Post open-source software. fuck the license and governance, just commit to github." According to Luis Villa, when even "...the open license ecosystem assumes that sharing can't (or even shouldn't) happen without explicit permission in the form of licenses", developers vote their dissent through POSS. This was mostly ineffective, since the default in international copyright law is "all rights reserved", and some dedication to the public domain or license is necessary if the software is to be shared with the public without legal ambiguity.

Precursor

In 2004 Daniel J. Bernstein pushed a similar idea with his License-free software, where he neither placed his software (qmail, djbdns, daemontools, and ucspi-tcp) into public domain nor released it with a software license. But, with end of 2007 he dedicated his software in the public domain with an explicit waiver statement.{{cite web

References

References

  1. [https://opensource.com/business/14/8/interview-michael-tiemann-red-hat How to think like open source pioneer] by Michael Tiemann (5 Aug 2014)
  2. "Dai Jesting". Twitter.
  3. Simon Phipps. (30 November 2012). "GitHub needs to take open source seriously". Infoworld.
  4. [[Luis Villa]]. (2013). "Pushing back against licensing and the permission culture". tieguy.org.
  5. [https://web.archive.org/web/20040622043020/http://qmail.org/not-open-source.html "qmail is not open source"] – an article published by Russell Nelson, OSI board member in 2004
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