Open Source Stewardship | GitLab
▻https://about.gitlab.com/2016/01/11/being-a-good-open-source-steward
We’ve recently detailed our policy and commitment to open source. We need to think in the interests of the project, while tending to the realities of running a business to support it. I wanted to share some of our thoughts around the decisions behind the policy.
The challenge of being an open source steward
On Opensource.com, Matthias Stürmer identified four types of open source communities:
single-vendor open source projects
development communities
user communities
open source competence centers
We could think of the last three types as marked by distributed development. Sometimes they are managed by community-organized foundations or associations but they have no singular point of commercial support. Examples include Apache, Rails and Linux.