SOS Sustainable Open Source
summary
Open source underpins most products yet faces license churn, single-maintainer risk and chronic underfunding: 97 of 2400+ audited codebases include OSS, 46% of maintainers are unpaid and only 26% earn >$1k/year. Real failures include supply-chain breakage and sabotage — left-pad and faker.js hijacks, node-ipc tampering, Log4j — and license shifts that prompt forks like Apache Pekko and OpenSearch. Practical fixes are concrete: pay maintainers, put maintainers on payroll, fund triage and code review, join foundations, and monitor licenses proactively.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 6:28What are the issues?
- 7:02An increase of "kinda" Open Source licenses
- 10:00The Open Source Definition
- 17:26License audit
- 18:47The impact of a bad license
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