From Project to Profit: Commercial Open Source Software Licensing and Business Models

Heather Meeker · 42 min · 2021

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This talk walks through how software licensing choices shape the ways an open source project can earn revenue, from dual licensing to support and hosted offerings. Founders turning a community project into a company use it to understand the legal tradeoffs behind their business model before they commit.

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