Saviour or downfall? Corporate sponsors and what happens when a F/OSS project abandons F/OSS.

FOSSASIA Summit 2021 Saturday, 13 March, 2021 2:00 PM (Asia/Singapore) To Sunday, 21 March, 2021 9:00 PM (Asia/Singapore)

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Saviour or downfall? Corporate sponsors and what happens when a F/OSS project abandons F/OSS.When a for-profit corporation either hires most of the developers of a popular F/OSS project and then convinces them to continue developing under a non-FOSS license, or takes something that it built from the outset as a F/OSS project and shifts to a non-F/OSS license after it becomes popular, what should happen?<br><br>Our panel explores past examples, what's worked, what hasn't, and what could be done better in future.